Inside the DEP's ultraviolet treatment facility, one of the complex and expensive mechanisms that helps deliver a billion gallons of water to the city each day.

Adi Talwar

Inside the DEP's ultraviolet treatment facility, one of the complex and expensive mechanisms that helps deliver a billion gallons of water to the city each day.

WNYC and City Limits teamed up last month for a series of radio stories and investigative articles on the city’s water system, that monument to wise planning and miracle of brilliant engineering that’s been so quietly reliable, most New Yorkers don’t realize the magnitude of its operations or the extent of its challenges.

Now, like a great summer beach-read that’s been turned into a blockbuster movie, the entire series has been produced as an hour-long special anchored by WNYC’s Morning Edition Host Soterios Johnson featuring new interviews with EPA Regional Administrator Judith Enck, Cooper Union Professor Kevin Bone, FxFowle’s Ilana Judah, this reporter and others.

The airtimes are as follows:

Saturday, August 1 at:
6 a.m. on 93.9 FM and NJPR
2 p.m. on AM 820
4 p.m. on 93.9 FM
9 p.m. on NJPR

Sunday, August 2 at:
7 p.m. on 93.9 FM
8 p.m. on AM 820

Wednesday, August 5 at:
2 p.m. on 93.9 FM
8 p.m. on 93.9 FM

The audio will also ultimately be posted here.

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