Troubled Waters on Cape Cod: Liquid Gold (Part 3)

Cape Cod communities are facing an expensive mandate to clean up
their wastewater. Urine diversion or “pee-cycling” could be a
cost-effective pollution solution. In the third and final
installment of our three-part Fascination series about Cape Cod’s
“yellow tide,” environmental reporter Barbara Moran meets a
Falmouth couple championing this unconventional approach.  You
can check out more of Barbara Moran’s reporting on Cape Cod’s water
pollution, including the “pee-cycling” pilot project in Falmouth.
And watch WBUR and Scientific American’s documentary short
exploring how pollution and algae overgrowth threaten this
Massachusetts vacation hub. Email us at sciencequickly@sciam.com if
you have any questions, comments or ideas for stories we should
cover! Discover something new every day: subscribe to Scientific
American and sign up for our daily newsletter.  This series is
a co-production of WBUR and Scientific American. It’s reported and
hosted by WBUR’s Barbara Moran. Science Quickly is produced by Jeff
DelViscio, Kelso Harper, Madison Goldberg and Rachel Feltman. Our
theme music was composed by Dominic Smith. Shayna Posses and Aaron
Shattuck fact-checked this series, and Duy Linh Tu and Sebastian
Tuinder contributed reporting and sound. WBUR’s Kathleen Masterson
edited this series. Additional funding was provided by the Pulitzer
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