INVISIBLE INFRASTRUCTURE — LANDING PAGE: SOURCES & CREDITS ========================================================== ARTWORK ------- All artwork on this page is original vector (SVG) line art drawn by hand in code for this page: faucet, glass, drops, treatment-plant clarifiers/filter beds, underground water mains, utility pole, power lines, substation, city skyline and glowing street grid. Generic, not depictions of any specific real place. The water "caustic shimmer" is an SVG noise filter (assets/caustics.svg), also original. The link-preview image (og-image.png) and icons (favicon.svg, favicon-32.png, apple-touch-icon.png, icon-512.png) are made from the same original artwork. No photographs, no third-party images, no AI-generated images. No web fonts (system fonts only). No analytics, trackers, cookies or email capture. FACTS USED ON THE PAGE ---------------------- 1) Water: "400,000 people got sick in Milwaukee in 1993 when it failed." Milwaukee, Wisconsin cryptosporidiosis outbreak, March–April 1993. The city's water treatment failed to remove Cryptosporidium; an estimated 403,000 people became ill. Source: Mac Kenzie WR, et al. "A Massive Outbreak in Milwaukee of Cryptosporidium Infection Transmitted through the Public Water Supply." New England Journal of Medicine 1994; 331:161-167. DOI: 10.1056/NEJM199407213310304 (On the page this is rounded down to "400,000".) 2) Electricity: "In 2003, one blackout hit an area home to about 50 million people in the U.S. and Canada." Northeast blackout of August 14, 2003. Report wording: "The outage affected an area with an estimated 50 million people and 61,800 megawatts (MW) of electric load" in Ohio, Michigan, Pennsylvania, New York, Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Jersey and the Canadian province of Ontario. Source: U.S.-Canada Power System Outage Task Force, "Final Report on the August 14, 2003 Blackout in the United States and Canada: Causes and Recommendations" (April 2004), p. 1. Published by the U.S. Department of Energy and Natural Resources Canada. LINKS ----- - Episode 1 "How Water Became Safe": placeholder (#ep1) until published. Change CONFIG.EP1_URL at the top of assets/app.js. - "Evidence First": https://dontamatterz.gumroad.com/l/evidence-first-troubleshooting