In this episode, I talk with eminent scholars Drs. Manuel Teodoro, Samantha Zuhlke, and David Switzer about their recent book of immense importance to the water industry entitled The Profits of Distrust: Citizen-Consumers, Drinking Water, and the Crisis of Confidence in American Government (Cambridge University Press, 2022).

Dr. Teodoro is the Robert F. & Sylvia T. Wagner Distinguished Professor in the La Follette School of Public Affairs at the University of Wisconsin. Dr. Zuhlke is assistant professor in the School of Planning and Public Affairs at the University of Iowa. Dr. Switzer is assistant professor at the Truman School of Public Affairs at the University of Missouri.