Rigoberto Hernandez
Reporter who contributed reporting to the episode and appears in the narrative as a primary reporter and interviewer for the Philadelphia Inquirer collaboration.
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Jan 7, 2020 • 48min
How Philadelphia's Water Pollution Problems Shaped the City
Adam Levine, historian at the Philadelphia Water Department, Alexis Schulman, stormwater history researcher, and Rigoberto Hernandez, reporter for the Philadelphia Inquirer, trace three centuries of the city’s water story. They cover Dock Creek’s burial, Fairmount Waterworks and early sanitation, the rise of combined sewers, filtration and chlorination, and the modern debate between gray tunnels and green infrastructure.
Mar 19, 2019 • 36min
Making the Deserts Bloom
Kenton Yannick, processing archivist with archival anecdotes about Walter L. Badger. Jacob Roberts, historical writer on desalination and Freeport's plant. Rigoberto Hernandez, reporter with on‑the‑ground California accounts. They trace 1950s Texas drought, JFK's desalination push, early pilot plants and Badger's evaporation scheme. Conversations move to California droughts, environmental costs of brine, political lock‑in and the limits of desalination.
