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Karen White's straightforward narration keeps the focus on the story.-- AudioFile A powerful argument...Convincingly brings out how nature has ways we can learn from for treating sewage with a minimal environmental footprint. -- Nitya Jacob, water policy analyst, consultant, and former head of policy, WaterAid India This fascinating audiobook about how Arcata, California, pioneered the use of wetlands to treat city sewage is a timely and involving listen--timely because the 1972 Clean Water Act is under new threat and involving because Karen White's straightforward narration keeps the focus on the story. It's a story that blends how little we knew about disease until recently--here's looking at you, cholera--with the effect of water pollution on human and environmental health...Enter the heroes of Humboldt County, who battled Big Sewage and re-created a marsh that attracts wildlife and people while filtering the yucky stuff. They're wonderful folks to spend time with. -- AudioFile

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Sharon Levy is a science writer based in northern California. Her work appears in Undark, BioScience, Nature, and other magazines. She is the author of Once and Future Giants: What Ice Age Extinctions Tell Us About the Fate of Earth's Largest Animals. Karen White has been narrating audiobooks of all genres since 1999. Honored to be included in AudioFile's Best Voices, she's also a four-time Audie Finalist and has earned multiple AudioFile Earphones Awards and Library Journal starred reviews.

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