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Mercer Island Reminds Us Of The Miracle Of Clean Water

Flickr Photo/Teresa Boardman (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)
A kitty drinks clean water from the faucet.

Marcie Sillman talks with Steven Johnson, author of "How We Got to Now: Six Innovations That Made the Modern World," about the technological innovations that led to widespread clean water in America, despite the E. coli in Mercer Island's drinking water this month.