What About Water? with Jay Famiglietti Podcast
1) 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, environmental journalist, National Geographic Explorer, and author of ...Show More
2) 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 water problems in the region, it now receives wastewater fr...Show More
3) 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 led to the overallocation of the Colorado River, and the conse...Show More
4) 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 listening? On this episode, Dr. Upmanu Lall joins host Jay...Show More
5) 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 estimates that amount is now even higher. Gary White is ...Show More
6) 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 security by moving it across borders to dry regions like th...Show More
7) 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 the water is contaminated and polluted. We look at whether de...Show More
8) Drilling Deeper Won't Fix This
People in the lower Colorado River basin are now witnessing drastic cuts to their river water allotments. In many cases, developers find alternate sources of water by drilling well into underground aq...Show More
9) 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 aridification continues across the American southwest, water...Show More
10) 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. That injustice triggered her decade-long advocacy campaign for...Show More