As New Hampshire grows we’re learning more about the hazards facing water quantity, quality and infrastructure and are exploring new ways to combat them. Hydrologists, environmentalist, inventors, and water groups are working hard on this effort, thinking up new technologies, new ideas and new plans so we’ll have enough clean potable water for our future. We conclude our series by exploring the future of our state’s drinking water and what some in the state are doing about it.

Guests

• Harry Stewart, Water Division Director at the Department of Environmental Services
• Brian Goetz, consultant for Weston and Sampson, a Portsmouth-based water treatment and wastewater design and consulting company and current president of New Hampshire’s Water Works Association

We'll also hear from

• Dean Kamen, founder and owner of DEKA Research and Development Corporation in Manchester; he has invented a water purification device called the Slingshot that can take any kind of polluted water and transfer it to potable water by using minimal energy

A friendly rivalry exists on each side of the Connecticut.

Residents in the Green Mountain and Granite States love to compare the two.

But when it comes to nesting pairs of bald eagles, there’s no contest.

The Vermont Standard’s Kevin Forrest reports.

Scientists at the University of New Hampshire are studying storm water - where it goes, and how to manage it. Turns out, every time we construct a new building or lay down a new parking lot, we change its natural flow. Runoff from our man-made structures collects pollution, then flows directly back into our rivers, lakes and ponds.

Researchers like James Houle, program manager and outreach coordinator at UNH’s Storm Water Center, are looking at ways to reduce that impact.

(Photo by Toni Verdú Carbó)

Four years ago, Eric Bebergal tried to kill himself by wrapping wire around his neck and attaching it to a closet pole. His wife found him passed out on the floor. He was admitted to the emergency room at Mass General Hospital, and was released the next day. A few weeks later, Eric attempted suicide again, and this time succeeded. He was 46 years old.

Peter Bebergal wrote a touching article in the Boston Globe last weekend about his brother’s suicide. And he asks if a test being developed by Harvard researchers, the Suicide Implicit Association Test, could have revealed his brother’s desire to try to kill himself again. Peter joins Word of Mouth from Boston with more on the test and its critics.

(Photo by Gabriela Camerotti)

River Minutes Number 4