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Most of us know, basically, where the water that comes out of our tap was from originally. In Chicago, I drink Lake Michigan. When I lived in Maine, I drank Lake Sebago. But if you live in the American Southwest, where lakes are few and far between, your drinking water is coming from a number of places.

Lake Mead, Arizona, the body of water created by the Hoover Dam. Check those falling water lines! Creative Commons photo by flickr user kyle simourd.

A whole slew of reporters from Terrascope Youth Radio (Ashley Brown, Carmen Chan, Jennifer deBruijn, Elise Hens, Elizabeth Jones, Yusung John Lim, Margaret Lloyd, Tyler Thompson, Andrew Wimmer, and Michelle Slosberg) produced this in depth story about water in Arizona, from just about every angle they could see: legal, political, personal, environmental, and a few more. Listen up to the YouthCast.

Podcast: Download (Duration: 24:43 — 11.3MB)

Terrascope Youth Radio is made up of a bunch of rogue science reporters from Cambridge. As they say about themselves, “It’s radio about scientists trying to figure out how nature works, and also about ordinary people who care about the world around them.”

I also used to live in Colorado, where until earlier this summer, it was illegal to drink the rain water you collect in barrels. Because rain, obviously, belongs to people before it even falls out of the sky. The Colorado Springs Gazette explains the law change. Here’s what I’m wondering: where does your tap water come from? If you wanna take a second and tell us where you live and where your water came from, it would be for the greater good.

Music in this podcast is by The Sounds of Taraab / CC BY-NC-SA 3.0, from the WFMU Free Music Archive.

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