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Cape Cod has a wastewater problem. Here's what low- and high-tech solutions look like

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Wastewater is oozing into Cape Cod's bays and estuaries, fostering unsightly blooms of green algae and threatening the Cape's tourism-dependent economy. WBUR climate correspondent Barbara Moran joins Radio Boston to explain what's causing the problem and what some enterprising Cape residents are doing about it.

This segment aired on February 12, 2024.

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