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What About Water? with Jay Famiglietti

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 Famiglietti.

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32:26

COVID-19 and Our Water Supply

What About Water? with Jay Famiglietti ·

2020/09/15

What is the impact of COVID-19 on our water supply? As we learn on the Season 2 debut of "Let's Talk About Water" scientists' initial fears the virus could be a waterborne as well as airborne have lessened. But as it has in just about every other aspect of our lives, COVID has affected how we understand and use water. Host Jay Famiglietti speaks to water scientist Markus Brinkmann about the University of Saskatchewan's involvement in an important new international surveillance project. It tracks

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32:24

Want to handle floods? Leave it to the Dutch.

What About Water? with Jay Famiglietti ·

2020/03/15

Host Jay Famiglietti speaks with globe-trotting water expert Henk Ovink about the Dutch approach to water, particularly in comparison to North America. They explore the difference between how humans react to disaster versus how they react to climate change. Both are fraught with danger. Finally.... cue the theme music from "Cheers." It's the 10th and final episode of Season 1. We bid a fond farewell (for now).

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31:11

From building rockets to top U.S. water diplomat

What About Water? with Jay Famiglietti ·

2020/03/01

President Barack Obama. Hillary Clinton. Aaron Salzberg. One of these 3 people regularly wears a pretty sick ponytail and has sat down to talk water policy with the other 2. That person is our guest this week: Aaron Salzberg is Director of the Water Institute at the University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill. He joins host Jay Famiglietti to chronicle his journey from car mechanic to heavy-hitting water diplomat in the State Department, to his new gig at UNC. Aaron tells some riveting

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23:57

Pained communities, dry wells in Arizona: Ian James...

What About Water? with Jay Famiglietti ·

2020/02/16

A brief trip down memory lane for host Jay Famiglietti on a jaw-dropping moment in 2015 with the CEO of Nestle Waters North America. Then, back into the thick of it with guest Ian James, a reporter with the Arizona Republic newspaper in Phoenix. Jay and Ian dig into James' 6-part investigative series on groundwater depletion in Arizona, called "Arizona's Next Water Crisis," and touch on the Trump administration. Audio credits: Audio from the special report on azcentral.com, The Arizona Republic’s

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22:08

Big Bottled Water Battle: Ian James Part 1

What About Water? with Jay Famiglietti ·

2020/02/02

Guest Ian James is a reporter with the Arizona Republic newspaper in Phoenix. He and host Jay Famiglietti reflect on their roles in the big bottled water battle that gripped California in 2015 as Nestle Waters North America refused to stop drawing water from a national forest during a drought. Ian shares a harrowing story about violence against small farmers in Peru who were seeing large farm companies running water pipes through their area, all while they were seeing their water levels drop.

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30:27

Zoning in on water shortages in California

What About Water? with Jay Famiglietti ·

2020/01/19

Big topic: what's the state of drought in California these days? Plus host Jay Famiglietti talks about that one time he almost got fired from NASA, guest Newsha Ajami and Jay ponder what made people start using less water in California.

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20:23

Big bad Texas storms and more

What About Water? with Jay Famiglietti ·

2020/01/05

Recorded at the American Geophysical Union's annual fall meeting in San Francisco. Host Jay Famiglietti sits down with old friend Bridget Scanlon, head of the Sustainable Water Resources Program at the University of Texas in Austin. They discuss big bad Texas storms, why flood waters are not commonly captured to be used in drought times, and how contaminants in water can be all natural.

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28:40

Water, peace and the Middle East: Part 2

What About Water? with Jay Famiglietti ·

2019/12/22

Part 2 of our interview in Tel Aviv, Israel where host Jay Famiglietti sits down with Gidon Bromberg, co-founder and Israeli Director of EcoPeace Middle East. Gidon talks about his leap from attorney to non-profit founder. Jay and Gidon discuss how the holy site of the Jordan River has been "turned into little more than a sewage canal," and how it can recover.

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26:02

Water, peace and the Middle East: Part 1

What About Water? with Jay Famiglietti ·

2019/12/15

This episode, host Jay Famiglietti sits down with Gidon Bromberg, co-founder and Israeli Director of EcoPeace Middle East. Gidon comes from the most water-scarce region in the planet, where basic facts and science are so heavily politicized that it's hard to agree on them. He lays out the landscape of this conflict over water between Jordan, Israeli and Palestine people. Gidon explains how people who often view each other as enemies are working together to deal with their immediate needs, like

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26:07

Calling out scientists for not helping water-troubled...

What About Water? with Jay Famiglietti ·

2019/11/23

Our guests this week haven't always seen eye to eye when looking at a river delta that acts as a breeding ground for massive numbers of wildlife and waterfowl. Gary Carriere lives in a community that relies on the Saskatchewan River Delta for its culture and livelihood. Graham Strickert, Assistant Professor in the School of Environment and Sustainability at the University of Saskatchewan, studies it. Host Jay Famiglietti navigates the waters with these two men as they explain how they came to see

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20:07

Please don't flush your drugs, and other underwater...

What About Water? with Jay Famiglietti ·

2019/11/17

Karen Kidd takes us underwater, metaphorically speaking. She tells us how pharmaceuticals, birth control and mercury affect fish and aquatic life — and how they got there in the first place.

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01:01

Trailer

What About Water? with Jay Famiglietti ·

2019/11/01

Starting soon, Let's Talk About Water, a podcast from the Global Institute for Water Security and The Walrus Lab.

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