The Outfall Podcast
Welcome to The Outfall – a podcast that explores the backstories of our water world and its infrastructure through unique stories. The Outfall is about sharing stories about topics we don’t think about. We aim to be more fun than serious, short than long, and hopefully more lively than dull.
- Update frequency
- every 20 days
- Average duration
- 14 minutes
- Episodes
- 91
- Years Active
- 2019 - 2025
#08: A Picture is Worth a Thousand Wipes
In this episode, we share a story about a series of pictures. These pictures were not ordinary. In three days they spread around the world. The story starts deep in the sewers of Charleston, South Ca…
Short: Misdirection and Surprise
It’s been a while since we produced one of our 5-minute water shorts. Well, the wait is over. This short begins with a discovery. We found out during one of our recording sessions that David has a tr…
#07: Bold Predictions and Companies that will Change our Water Future
In this episode, we are hunting water unicorns with Dr. Piers Clark. Piers is the founder and chairman of Isle Utilities. They have offices all over the world and what they do is help water utilities…
#06: Responding to Dorian: On the Ground with Water Mission
We talk with George Greene, President of Water Mission, about the Bahamas. Water mission is unique in the world of NGOs with a powerful story. They are a nonprofit Christian engineering organization …
#05: When Weather, Wit and a Gaggleplex of Clouds Collide...Mark Malsick
"A dubious solution that plays fast and loose with Occam's razor. The prudent manner abides by the weather glass" - Mark Malsick, SCDNR
Many in the Carolinas and throughout the world know Mark Malsic…
#04: 38 Days in a Media Firestorm: Is it the Water?
In the summer of 2017, a group of residents and environmental activist Erin Brockovich challenged Mount Pleasant’s water system claiming that the town’s water contained pesticides that might be causi…
#03: The Incredible Shrinking Hydraulic Laboratory
When David Werth started this lab over five years ago he literally bet the house by maxing out his credit cards and getting an instrumental loan to start the lab. His bet paid off. David is one of th…
Water Short: In Search of the Blue Ghost Firefly
Our second water short has us searching for the mysterious Blue Ghost Firefly. This Firefly is found nowhere else in the world, but the Southern Appalachians and the largest population is in Western …
#02: Water Recycling inside the Space Station
Dr. Ladner had a chance to talk with Layne Carter from NASA recently. During his 28 years at NASA, Mr. Carter has worked on the development, design, delivery, and operation of the ISS Water Recovery …
Water Short Number 1: Every Breath You Take
This week we produced our first Water Short, a short podcast five minutes or less with one big idea. This week we ask a question: When you lose weight, through which orifice does it leave? It’s somet…
Conversation with Ron Rash
We talk with New York Times bestselling author Ron Rash. He is the author of Serena and Above the Waterfall, in addition to four prizewinning novels, including The Cove, One Foot in Eden, Saints at t…