What About Water? with Jay Famiglietti
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What About Water? with Jay Famiglietti
"What About Water? with Jay Famiglietti" connects water science with the stories that bring about solutions, adaptation, and action for the world's water realities. Presented by Arizona State University and the University of Saskatchewan, and hosted by ASU Professor and USask Professor Emeritus Jay...
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Sewage Spillover in 'Mexico's Toilet Bowl': The Endhó Dam Crisis
The Endhó Dam north of Mexico City has been called “the largest septic tank in the world” and “Mexico’s toilet bowl”. Once designed to solve water pro...
Tapped Out: The Dire State of America’s Groundwater
Humans are burning through our fossil fuels, and we're burning through our groundwater at an alarming rate. But are the powers that be even listening?...
Go With the Flow: Erica Gies on Embracing Water's Natural Path
What happens when we change our relationship to water? Can we stop trying to control water and just go with the flow?
Erica Gies, environmental...
John Fleck on the Inconvenient Science of the Colorado River
What happens when science gets in the way of ambition, politics, and progress?
With a look back at the historical figures and forces that led to...
Water Costs Money: How Gary White and Matt Damon are Bridging the Gap
The World Bank estimated in 2016 it would take $1.7 trillion USD to achieve universal access to clean water and sanitation by 2030. By other estimates...
Quenching Desert Thirst: What Will It ‘Take’?
What is the true price of water? Considering growth and climate, how do we address the gap between demand and supply? Could we achieve water security...
Season 5 Trailer
Freshwater is essential for life on Earth, but analysts at the World Bank say more often than not, there's either too little, too much, or the water i...
Drilling Deeper Won't Fix This
People in the lower Colorado River basin are now witnessing drastic cuts to their allotments. In many cases, developers find alternate sources of wate...
The Colorado River's Alfalfa Problem
The meat and dairy industries are some of the biggest water users in the American West, thanks to one of cows' favorite foods – alfalfa. As aridificat...
World Water Day 2023 with Autumn Peltier
When Autumn Peltier was eight, she learned the tap water on a neighbouring reserve wasn’t safe to drink, or even to use for hand-washing. That injusti...
Will Sarni: Can We Tech Our Way Out of Wicked Water Problems?
Can we really “tech” our way out of freshwater shortages, scarcity, and pollution?
In our Season 4 finale, we’re asking the big question of the...
What Lurks Beneath: How Robots Can Save City Plumbing with Vanessa Speight
In this episode, we’re going underground, undersea and into your water and sewer pipelines with science fiction’s favorite problem-solvers…robots!
An AI Fix for Aging Water Systems with Seyi Fabode
On this episode of What About Water? an entrepreneur in Austin, Texas turns his dishwasher sensor into a tech startup that’s feeding water utilities s...
Chemical Cocktails: What’s in our Groundwater? with John Cherry
If it’s not stuck in glaciers or polar ice, 99 per cent of the world’s freshwater is groundwater. Water underground supplies nearly half of the world’...
Dirty Laundry: Water and the World of Fast Fashion
Call the fashion police! In this special holiday edition of What About Water? we dive into the apparel industry’s dirty secret: its water use. Behind...
Into Thin Air: A Smarter Way to Water Crops, with A.J. Purdy
How can we measure water when it disappears into thin air?
On this episode of What About Water? we’re looking at evapotranspiration, or “ET” for...
Submerged
In the quest to find clean, renewable sources of energy, we turn to a familiar method: hydroelectricity. Today, the ancient method of harnessing the p...
Field Smarts: Protecting Farmers’ Wallets and Our Water, with Bruno Basso
It’s estimated that by 2050, we’ll have over 9 billion people on earth. To feed everyone, we will need to produce 60 per cent more food - and we'll ne...
Under the Sea: Hidden Freshwater Reserves with Brandon Dugan
By 2025, experts predict over half the world’s population will live in water-stressed areas. With a number of our freshwater resources on land recedin...
Running Dry: Nik Kowsar on Iranian Censorship and Water Scarcity
For Nik Kowsar, civil unrest in Iran is not new. As a geologist and journalist, he's been sounding the alarm about water shortages and censorship in h...
Water Affects Your Pension: Cate Lamb at World Water Week
Can water risk disclosure move the needle on corporate water stewardship?
And what does that risk mean for our own retirement funds?
In th...
Don't Mess With the Data: Virginia Burkett on Louisiana's Vanishing Coastline
In the first episode of our fourth season, Jay sits down with renowned scientist and IPCC author, Virginia Burkett, to talk about technology, its pitf...
Season 4 Trailer
Our planet is in crisis. When it comes to water, there are many promising solutions. But in a world full of new technologies, what innovations should...
Can Peace and Prosperity Flow from Water?
What happens when tensions over water reach their boiling point? In our final bonus episode of the summer season, we explore the causes of water confl...
Engineering a New Water World
In our third bonus episode of the summer season, we look back at the innovative ways people are sourcing their freshwater, from building home water sy...
Going to Extremes: Heat, Water Scarcity and Food
From farmer’s fields to the high arctic, from your morning cup of coffee to a glass of wine – everything we eat and drink depends on water. In the sec...
At Its Essence: What Indigenous Teachings Tell us About Water
In our first mini-episode of the summer season, we turn to three guests from our past seasons to explore Indigenous ways of knowing, and to look more...
Summer Season Trailer (Bonus Episodes)
This summer on What About Water? we bring you some of our most compelling interviews from the past three seasons. We're releasing four mini episodes s...
The Girl Who Wanted To Swim: Tackling Sewage At The Source
On our final episode of Season 3, we hear how a 6th grade science fair project led to receiving the Order of Nova Scotia for youth environmentalist an...
Water Pipes to Water Rights: Protecting Water with Newsha Ajami and Carolina Vilches
Newsha Ajami, Chief Development Officer for Research at the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, joins us as our first return guest of the podcast.
N...
Good To The Last Drop? Coffee & Climate with Aaron Davis
Coffee scientist and researcher Dr. Aaron Davis says even with rising temperatures, and more drought -- that doesn’t have to be the case. This week on...
Tasha Beeds: Walking With Water
On this episode of What About Water? we’re learning from traditional knowledge. Jay sits down with Tasha Beeds, a grassroots Indigenous academic and...
The Sea Also Rises
On this episode of What About Water? we take a look at the state of our rising seas from space, and learn what coastal communities on the ground are d...
Debunking 'Toilet to Tap', with Mike Markus
With climate change threatening freshwater sources, water demand across the globe is likely to increase by 20 - 30% between now and 2050. In this epis...
Boiling Point: Water, Borders and Conflict with Aaron Wolf
Transboundary waters - the rivers, lakes, and aquifers shared by two or more countries - are found in 153 of the world’s 192 countries. They account f...
'Portfolios will tank': Mindy Lubber, money and water
We’re already reaping the financial repercussions of climate change. Four Twenty Seven projects that by 2040, roughly $78 trillion, equivalent to abo...
Replenishing a Broken Water Cycle with Sandra Postel
The good news is: we can look back to nature for solutions.
In this episode we speak with Sandra Postel, one of the world’s leading freshwater...
Growing Food in Dry Times: Drought in the West
It’s no surprise growing food uses lots of water.
One cow needs anywhere from 3 to 30 L of water a day. It takes 3200 L of water to grow one pou...
On Thin Ice: Iqaluit’s Water Crisis
This month, residents were alerted not to drink or cook with water due to contamination. But for years, the city’s main water supply - Lake Geraldine...
Climate Change Hope with Katharine Hayhoe
Katharine Hayhoe’s new book, Saving Us: A Climate Scientist’s Case for Hope and Healing in a Divided World, is a practical and compassionate guide for...