Episodes
Peter Gleick discusses his latest book, The Three Ages of Water: PrehistoricPast, Imperiled Present, and a Hope for the Future.
Published 11/14/24
Maysoon Al-Zoubi discusses water stresses in Jordan linked to refugee influx and climate extremes with various proposed solutions.
Published 10/31/24
Doug Owen talks about advances in wastewater reuse over the past decades with an emphasis on potable reuse in San Diego.
Published 10/17/24
Rob Hope discusses REACH and Uptime programs that are designed to improve water access for the poor in Ethiopia, Kenya, and Bangladesh.
Published 10/03/24
Brian Richter talks about his recent work on the Colorado River, global environmental flows, and sustainable water management.
Published 09/19/24
Claudia Faunt describes the new Central Valley Hydrologic Model (CVHM) highlighting the system response to droughts and floods and groundwater pumping and land subsidence from 1962 to 2019.
Published 09/05/24
Cath Moore describes airborne geophysics, physical and chemical monitoring, and modeling approaches to understand water resource challenges in New Zealand.
Published 08/22/24
Paul Bauman talks about his recent trip to Eastern Chad to locate groundwater wells in new and expanding camps hosting refugees from neighboring Sudan.
Published 08/08/24
Veena Srinivasan talks about water resource challenges in southern India and linkages to suitable policies considering climate extremes.
Published 07/25/24
Aaron Wolf discusses the importance of transboundary water issues globally, catastrophic impacts of recent wars on water infrastructure, and potential role of water in conflict resolution
Published 07/11/24
Claudia Ringler discusses the role of crop breeding, trade and other strategies for improving water management to enhance food and water security.
Published 06/27/24
Ruby Leung discusses natural climate variability versus climate change, wildfires, atmospheric rivers, and stakeholder engagement in California.
Published 06/13/24
Junguo Liu discusses global water scarcity and nitrogen scarcity and role of virtual water and nitrogen transport through commodity trade.
Published 05/30/24
Clint Dawson discusses advances in ADCIRC modeling of storm surge over past two decades to support hindcasting and forecasting for disaster management. His most recent research focuses on compound flooding applications.
Published 05/16/24
Chaopeng Shen describes various types of machine learning with applications linked to traditional process based modeling in hydrology.
Published 05/02/24
Matt Rodell describes how the GRACE satellites track changes in Terrestrial Water Storage in response to droughts, floods, and climate change.
Published 04/18/24
Kate Brauman discusses nature-based solutions, their applications in hydrology in different regions globally, and comparisons with traditional engineering infrastructure.
Published 04/04/24
Charlie Vorosmarty discusses mapping human water security and biodiversity threats and potential green/gray solutions that integrate nature based and traditional engineering approaches.
Published 03/21/24
Marty Ralph discusses atmospheric rivers and how we can optimize them to improve water resources management within the context of droughts and floods through Forecast Informed Reservoir Operations.
Published 03/07/24
Lorenzo Rosa talks about green, blue, and economic water scarcity related to food production considering climate change and potential solutions to scarcity.
Published 02/22/24
In this podcast, Seifu discusses challenges to groundwater resources management in the Horn of Africa and Southern Africa related to droughts and floods and potential for conjunctive use of groundwater and surface water for more sustainable development.
Published 02/08/24
Jude Cobbing discusses the water resources in Sub-Saharan Africa, the barriers to development, including financing, drilling and pumping technologies, and energy access, and approaches to addressing these barriers as shown in South Africa.
Published 01/25/24
Megan Hart discusses risks related to natural hazards (e.g., floods, droughts, earthquakes) and approaches to managing those risks within the context of climate change.
Published 01/11/24
Chunmiao Zheng discusses China’s Water Challenges, including water scarcity in the north and water excess in the south, transfer from south to north, widespread water pollution and governance.
Published 12/28/23