Media Coverage

The following list is a selection of the ongoing media coverage of this issue. A comprehensive list of news articles related to wipes is maintained by the Maine Water Environment Association at http://www.mwwca.org/wipes-in-the-news .

• 09/10/2014 - Dr. Oz Show (part 1, part 2) 
• 09/08/2014 - “Flush-Defying Wipes Bedevil Cities as Sewers Surrender ” Bloomberg News
• 10/11/2013 – "New Age Toilet Paper Clogging Honolulu's Sewer Pipes, Causing Headaches," Honolulu Civil Beat
• 10/09/2013 – "Discussing the Dos & Don'ts of our Sewer System," Rogers TV, London
  
• 10/09/2013 – "Save Yourselves, Stop Flushing Flushable Wipes," Inside Tuscon Business
• 10/08/2013 – "Don't Flush 'Flushables,' Tinley Park Officials Say," Chicago Tribune
• 10/03/2013– "Sanitary Wipes Clogging Hawaii Pipes," Hawaii News Now
• 09/30/2013 – "Wastewater Treatmetn Facilities Waging War With Wipes," Arkansas Matters
• 09/25/2013 – "Popular Bathroom Wipes Blamed for Sewer Clogs," KCCI News 8
• 09/24/2013 – "'Flushable' Wipes Clogging Seewer Pipes," WCAX
• 09/10/2013 – "Keep Baby Wipes Out of the Pipes," MSN Money
• 09/09/2013 – "'Flushable' Wipes Fouling up the Waterworks ", Consumer Affairs Blog
• 09/07/2013 – "Flushable' Personal Wipes Clogging Sewer Systems, Utilities Say," Washington Post
• 08/27/2013 –  "VIDEO: Surprising Problem Clogging Denver's Sewer System," FOX 31 Denver
• 08/5/2013 – "'Fatberg' dead ahead! 15 tons of slime and wet-naps clog London sewer," NBC News
• 07/18/2013 – "Disinfecting Wipes are Clogging the Nation's Sewer Systems," Grist   
• 07/18/2013 –"Wipes Creating Headache for Many Cities' Pipes," WLTX News Columbia, SC
• 07/18/2013 - "Two Items You Should Not Put Into the Sewers or Flush," WFMY News Online, Raleigh, NC
• 07/18/2013 - "'Flushable' Wipes Clog Pipes at SF Wastewater Plants  ," NBC News Bay Area
• 07/17/2013 – "Cleaning Wipes Used In Homes and Offices Clogging Bay Area Sewer Pipes," KCBS San Francisco Bay Area
• 07/17/2013 – "Sewage Worker's Request: Please Stop Flushing Disposable Wipes, You're Clogging The Pipes," Consumerist   
• 07/16/2013 – "Wipes in the Pipes Snarling Sewers," USA Today 
• 07/15/2013 – "The Toilet Toll ," Water Canada
• 01/22/2013 – “Thiensvile too flush with disposable wipes,” Milwaukee Journal Sentinel 
• 10/15/2012 –“Strangled by Disposables “, Public Works Magazine
• 05/28/2009 –“Flushable Wipes Clogging Sewage Systems “, San Francisco Chronicle.
• 10/12/2007 – “Water District: Don’t Flush Consumer Wipes “, Lakes Region Weekly (Maine)