Latest River Earth Sciences Podcast Episodes
Drilling Deeper Won't Fix This
What About Water? with Jay Famiglietti - August 16, 2023 04:00 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 19 ratingsPeople in the lower Colorado River basin are now witnessing drastic cuts to their allotments. In many cases, developers find alternate sources of water by drilling into underground aquifers. But in places like Pinal County, Arizona, that groundwater is already becoming scarce. We hear from Steph...
The Colorado River's Alfalfa Problem
What About Water? with Jay Famiglietti - July 14, 2023 15:16 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 19 ratingsThe meat and dairy industries are some of the biggest water users in the American West, thanks to one of cows' favorite foods – alfalfa. As aridification continues across the American southwest, water is becoming far more scarce on the Colorado River. A critical source of water for roughly 40 mi...
World Water Day 2023 with Autumn Peltier
What About Water? with Jay Famiglietti - March 22, 2023 04:00 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 19 ratingsWhen 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 injustice triggered her decade-long advocacy campaign for safe drinking water. She made headlines as a 12 year-old, admonishing Prime Minister Justin Tru...
Will Sarni: Can We Tech Our Way Out of Wicked Water Problems?
What About Water? with Jay Famiglietti - March 01, 2023 05:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 19 ratingsCan 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 season – will new water technology be enough to solve wicked water problems? Will Sarni joins Jay for a look back at the bright ideas and inventions w...
What Lurks Beneath: How Robots Can Save City Plumbing with Vanessa Speight
What About Water? with Jay Famiglietti - February 15, 2023 05:00 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 19 ratingsIn this episode, we’re going underground, undersea and into your water and sewer pipelines with science fiction’s favorite problem-solvers…robots! Jay sits down with Vanessa Speight, a professor of Integrated Water Systems at the University of Sheffield, to learn how new, spider-like robots ha...
An AI Fix for Aging Water Systems with Seyi Fabode
What About Water? with Jay Famiglietti - February 01, 2023 05:00 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 19 ratingsOn this episode of What About Water? an entrepreneur in Austin, Texas turns his dishwasher sensor into a tech startup that’s feeding water utilities snapshots of their water quality in real time. Jay sits down with Seyi Fabode, the CEO and co-founder of Varuna, to discuss how his company’s...
Chemical Cocktails: What’s in our Groundwater? with John Cherry
What About Water? with Jay Famiglietti - January 18, 2023 05:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 19 ratingsIf 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’s drinking water. But what happens when dangerous chemicals and waste – polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), oil, gasoline and road salts – percolat...
Dirty Laundry: Water and the World of Fast Fashion
What About Water? with Jay Famiglietti - December 21, 2022 05:00 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 19 ratingsCall 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 oil and gas, fashion is the single most polluting industry on the planet. It accounts for 8 per cent of all carbon emissions and 20 per cent of gl...
Into Thin Air: A Smarter Way to Water Crops, with A.J. Purdy
What About Water? with Jay Famiglietti - December 07, 2022 05:00 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 19 ratingsHow 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 short. It’s the combination of water evaporating from the soil, combined with the measure of water transpiring through crops’ leaves. Accounting for ...
Salmon resilience in the Taku region
54 degrees North - December 02, 2022 19:00 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingAs part of our salmon connections and resilience series, we go further north to Taku River Tlingit territory to learn about the work and research being done to protect salmon and adapt to changing conditions from climate impacts. Thanks for the interviews and insights from Mark Connor and Chri...
Submerged
What About Water? with Jay Famiglietti - November 23, 2022 05:00 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 19 ratingsIn the quest to find clean, renewable sources of energy, we turn to a familiar method: hydroelectricity. Today, the ancient method of harnessing the power of flowing water is hitting enormous new heights. Hydroelectric dams are some of the biggest human-made structures in the world. As humans ...
Field Smarts: Protecting Farmers’ Wallets and Our Water, with Bruno Basso
What About Water? with Jay Famiglietti - November 09, 2022 05:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 19 ratingsIt’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 need to grow it using less water. On this episode of What About Water? we’re looking at new technology that can make that shift possible. Jay sits...
Under the Sea: Hidden Freshwater Reserves with Brandon Dugan
What About Water? with Jay Famiglietti - October 26, 2022 04:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 19 ratingsBy 2025, experts predict over half the world’s population will live in water-stressed areas. With a number of our freshwater resources on land receding, is it time to look to the ocean - or, rather, underneath it for fresh water? Jay sits down with Brandon Dugan, the Associate Department Head ...
Running Dry: Nik Kowsar on Iranian Censorship and Water Scarcity
What About Water? with Jay Famiglietti - October 12, 2022 04:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 19 ratingsFor 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 his home country for decades. After being arrested and jailed for one of his cartoons and receiving death threats from pro-regime Islamists, Kows...
Salmon connections - the heart of it all
54 degrees North - October 11, 2022 18:00 - 16 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingAs part of the salmon connections and resilience series for 54 Degrees North, we reached out to a number of people who have defended salmon in some way against the myriad of threats they face. We hear about their connectedness to this critical species that is so intertwined with cultures and com...
Mining risks to salmon watersheds
54 degrees North - October 11, 2022 18:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingAs part of our salmon connections and resilience series, we explore the potential impacts of mining on salmon watersheds. The episode features some of the authors who collaborated on a science and policy paper published in Science Advances in July 2022 that reviewed the ecological complexities o...
Skeena Estuary - critical salmon habitat
54 degrees North - October 11, 2022 18:00 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingThe Skeena River is the second largest salmon producing watershed in Canada and a critical part of it is the unique and highly productive estuary. The area deserves protection from future threats and is essential to the survival and resilience of salmon and cultures in this region. In this episo...
Water Affects Your Pension: Cate Lamb at World Water Week
What About Water? with Jay Famiglietti - September 28, 2022 04:00 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 19 ratingsCan water risk disclosure move the needle on corporate water stewardship? And what does that risk mean for our own retirement funds? In this very special episode of What About Water? - recorded on location at World Water Week - Jay sits down with Cate Lamb in Stockholm, Sweden to discuss val...
Don't Mess With the Data: Virginia Burkett on Louisiana's Vanishing Coastline
What About Water? with Jay Famiglietti - September 14, 2022 04:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 19 ratingsIn the first episode of our fourth season, Jay sits down with renowned scientist and IPCC author, Virginia Burkett, to talk about technology, its pitfalls and its promises for a water-secure future. Burkett is the Chief Scientist for Climate and Land Use Change at the U.S. Geological Surve...
Season 4 Trailer
What About Water? with Jay Famiglietti - August 24, 2022 12:00 - 1 minute ★★★★★ - 19 ratingsOur 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 we pay attention to? And will they be enough? On Season 4 of What About Water? we're diving into New Technologies, Water Realities. Host Jay...
Can Peace and Prosperity Flow from Water?
What About Water? with Jay Famiglietti - August 17, 2022 10:00 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 19 ratingsWhat happens when tensions over water reach their boiling point? In our final bonus episode of the summer season, we explore the causes of water conflicts and what we can do to stop them. We start with the Middle East, a water-scarce region where conflict brews over shared water resources. We th...
Engineering a New Water World
What About Water? with Jay Famiglietti - July 13, 2022 06:05 - 16 minutes ★★★★★ - 19 ratingsIn our third bonus episode of the summer season, we look back at the innovative ways people are sourcing their freshwater, from building home water systems on the Navajo Nation to engineering a state of the art wastewater treatment facility in Orange County. We hear what improvements need to be ...
Going to Extremes: Heat, Water Scarcity and Food
What About Water? with Jay Famiglietti - June 15, 2022 04:05 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 19 ratingsFrom 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 second episode of our summer mini season, we draw from our past interviews about water scarcity and its effect on our food supply. We take a lo...
At Its Essence: What Indigenous Teachings Tell us About Water
What About Water? with Jay Famiglietti - May 18, 2022 04:00 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 19 ratingsIn 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 closely at the sacred nature of water -- how various people understand it, conserve it and co-exist with it. Janet Pitsiulaaq Brewster shares ho...
Summer Season Trailer
What About Water? with Jay Famiglietti - May 16, 2022 17:23 - 1 minute ★★★★★ - 19 ratingsThis 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 spanning four different themes that continue to resonate in the world of water. This special summer edition of What About Water? launches May 18...
Summer Season Trailer (Bonus Episodes)
What About Water? with Jay Famiglietti - May 16, 2022 17:23 - 1 minute ★★★★★ - 19 ratingsThis 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 spanning four different themes that continue to resonate in the world of water. This special summer edition of What About Water? launches May 18...
The Girl Who Wanted To Swim: Tackling Sewage At The Source
What About Water? with Jay Famiglietti - March 30, 2022 14:17 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 19 ratingsOn 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 and clean water advocate, Stella Bowles. At just 11 years old, Stella learned about the 600 straight pipes flushing unprocessed sewage from homes di...
Water Pipes to Water Rights: Protecting Water with Newsha Ajami and Carolina Vilches
What About Water? with Jay Famiglietti - March 16, 2022 04:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 19 ratingsThis week on What About Water?, we look at water infrastructure – from broken water pipes across America to the redistribution of water rights in Chilé – and what role governments play in fixing the systems that distribute our water. Newsha Ajami, Chief Development Officer for Research at the La...
Good To The Last Drop? Coffee & Climate with Aaron Davis
What About Water? with Jay Famiglietti - March 02, 2022 05:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 19 ratingsCoffee is one of the most widely-consumed beverages in the world. But with climate change threatening the world's two main coffee species, will that change? Coffee scientist and researcher Dr. Aaron Davis says even with rising temperatures, and more drought -- that doesn’t have to be the case. T...
Tasha Beeds: Walking With Water
What About Water? with Jay Famiglietti - February 16, 2022 05:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 19 ratingsOn this episode of What About Water? we’re learning from traditional knowledge. Jay sits down with Tasha Beeds, a grassroots Indigenous academic and Water Walker. She takes us through the origins of Water Walking - an Indigenous ceremony recognizing and connecting with water. Beeds enter...
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