Water & Health
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Hello, everybody. Welcome to Health Chatter. And today's show, it's actually kind of a special show when you really get down to it. It's about water and health. And if you really think about it, water, one way or another, affects all of us. So we'll get to all of our illustrious guests. We have quite a few of them for our show today in just a minute. We have a great crew that makes all Health Chatter broadcasts. successful, including Maddie Levine-Wolf, Aaron Collins, and Deandra Howard, who do our background research. All our research will be available, is available on our website. And for this show, you'll see all that as well. Our production manager is Matthew Campbell and our marketing person and researcher is Sheridan Nygaard.
So thank you to all of you. Without your assistance, none of these shows would be successful. You're a great crew. And then of course, there's my co-host for all the shows on Health Chatter, and that's Clarence Jones. It's been a pleasure working with you. Whoa, these shows. I think we're closing in on our 80th show here, 80, 81st show, something like that. And it's been really quite interesting. We've learned a lot, a lot. Then we also have Human Partnership, who's our sponsor for all of our shows. It's a great community health organization. Recommend that all of you check out their website at Human Partnership. That's H-U-E-M-A-N. HealthChatterPartnership.org. Thanks so much. And you can also check out our website at HealthChatterPodcast.com.
With that, I'm going to turn our great show coming up here over to my co-host. Clarence Jones. Clarence, take it away.
Hey, thanks, Dan. And I want to thank everyone for listening to our show today. Great show. And I want to start off with Dave because this is how we got connected to this whole process. I had seen Dave in a couple of community events and I just happened to see him in a bowling alley one day and we had a chance to sit down and talk about And it was there that I found out that he was involved with water. And we had this fascinating conversation about water and what's happening here in Minnesota. And so it's been probably close to 10 years that we've been talking about having another conversation about water. And so today we are honored that Dave and his colleagues are here. I just want to tell you, Dave is the assistant manager of the drinking water protection section at MDH. We also have Anna Sleep. She is the lead in drinking water coordinator for the drinking water protection program at MDH. We have Sandy Berman. He is a current drinking water administrator for the state of Minnesota. We have Alicia Overbow.
She's a supervisor of the communication and strategic initiative unit at MDH. We got some really special people here. And we're going to be talking about something that when I first started talking to Stan about this, I started talking about this issue around liquid gold. Because there's so many articles in the paper that's talking about water. And we're here in the land of 10,000 lakes, right? And it should be that we don't have any water problems. But I think it was a time for us to have a great conversation about this issue. So with that, Stan, I'm going to turn it back over to you, because I know that you have a lot of questions to answer or to ask our colleagues here.
You know, for those of us who have public health backgrounds, you know, inevitably, one way or the other, there's always conversations around water, everybody. doesn't matter where you are around the world, is linked with water one way or another. And when water is compromised, it really is a problem. So let's talk about water being compromised first. And what are the things that can compromise our drinking water? So either Ana or Sandeep, you want to take that one?
Drinking water is a fascinating utility because at the end of the day, it is a utility. Public water supplies are a utility. That is provided to us. It is really an intersection of two dimensions. You have the natural environment, which is the sources of our water. Ultimately, that's our lakes and rivers and streams and our underground waters.
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