Latest Scarcity 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...
Magic and Mysticism
Scarcity Complex - June 23, 2023 19:00 - 59 minutes#022 - Today's episode is a conversation with Dr. Justin Sledge as we discuss everything from magic to mysticism and the mystery of the Great Unknown. We touch briefly on Hildegard Von Bingen as well as the the role that unexplainable, inner experiences play in every day life. Dr. Sledge was...
Friday Night Live
Scarcity Complex - April 29, 2023 04:00 - 18 minutes#021 - All of us have this inner playfulness or creativity that we often hesitate sharing with the world out of fear that it won't be good enough or that we're the only ones that love being goofy and fun when no one is watching. What if that gift is something you are destined to share with the ...
Imagination
Scarcity Complex - April 15, 2023 19:00 - 34 minutes#020 - Our imagination and creativity is a funny thing. It's hard to explain where it comes from or when we find ourselves in that state of "flow", but we all know what it's like to be there. Often times we will give ourselves permission to play and then pull back because we're scared it might n...
Walking the Labyrinth
Scarcity Complex - April 08, 2023 05:00 - 16 minutes#019 - Spring is here and often is a nice change from the colder season of winter where we tend to conserve our energy and try to stay warm! For many of us, it's a chance to get outside more and spend time in nature. It's also Easter weekend which is celebrated worldwide from eggs and a hopping ...
Step By Step
Scarcity Complex - April 03, 2023 17:00 - 1 hour#018 - Recovering who we really are can often be a metaphor for the journey of the soul. Faith traditions might call it enlightenment, self realization or salvation. Psychologists might call it the work of individuation or integration. No matter the language or words we use to describe it, it is...
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...
Union of Opposites
Scarcity Complex - March 06, 2023 14:00 - 57 minutes#017 - Life is hard and being human isn't always a joy ride. It is often times filled with suffering, not having the answers, and wondering if there is a purpose in what often times feels like a world filled with pain and disorder. On today's show, I speak again with my good friend Rick Borutta ...
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...
Finding Balance in a Chaotic World
Scarcity Complex - February 23, 2023 03:00 - 51 minutes#016 - It’s hard not to feel the chaos that makes us believe our world is spinning out of control. Often times we feel powerless to do anything about it because the problems appear to be so overwhelming. On today's show, we'll ask the question, “What does it look like to find peace in the eye of...
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...
The Garden of the Mind
Scarcity Complex - December 07, 2022 17:00 - 53 minutes#015 - Thoughts. We all got them. And LOTS of them! All of us have a flurry of chatter or activity that flutters through our mind each and every day, yet often times we are only conscious of even a small number of them. There is no shortage of both self-help and spiritual traditions that teach u...
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 ...
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...
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...
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