Wasteland (2022)

Many homes in Loundes County, Ala., go without proper sewage systems; where septic systems are installed, sewage backups are common; residents struggle to upgrade their systems -- and a couple women are on a mission to help bring much-needed change.

In the shadow of New York City, a town surrounded by wealth is overwhelmed by a decrepit sewage system that threatens to swallow it whole. Adam Yamaguchi heads to the city of Mt. Vernon and discovers a sewage system that feels worlds away.

Adam Yamaguchi heads to one of the country's fastest growing regions, where residents and business owners still recoil about the disastrous algae blooms that brought on economic and environmental devastation that killed millions of fish and wildlife.

For more than 150 years farmers, in Iowa have been raising corn and pigs, and for more than 150 years the people of Iowa have been drinking untreated water from rivers polluted with nitrogen fertilizers, pesticides and livestock excrement.