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 , environme...
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Let's Talk About Water
A podcast about the future of our planet's water — and why you should care. Hosted by Jay Famiglietti and presented by the Global Institute for Water Security and The Walrus Lab.
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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...
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 le...
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...
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...
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...
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 t...
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 sourc...
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...
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. Th...
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...
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…r...
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 u...
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...
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 us...
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"...
Submerged
In the quest to find clean, renewable sources of energy, we turn to a familiar method: hydroelectricity. Today, the ancient method of harnes...
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 - an...
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 la...
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 censo...