How Will We Survive the Water Wars? - When Water Kills

Zócalo Public Square

English - October 13, 2013 23:00 - 53 minutes - 25.6 MB - ★★★★★ - 4 ratings
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Occidental College biologist Gretchen North, RAND Corporation senior scientist Robert Lempert, and UC Irvine hydrologist James S. Famiglietti talk with Occidental College historian Thaddeus Russell about the different ways water is threatening humanity today. Drought and finding clean water have always been issues in different parts of the world, but climate change is making the wet parts of the world wetter and the dry parts drier, which is complicating the search for solutions.