"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.
What About Water? with Jay Famiglietti
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"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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Recent Episodes
July 22, 2024
Go With the Flow: Erica Gies on Embracing Water's Natural Path
<p>What happens when we change our relationship to water? Can we stop trying to control water and just go with the flow?</p> <p><strong>Erica Gies</strong>, environmental journalist, National Geographic Explorer, and author of Water Always Wins: Thriving in an Age of Drought and Deluge sits down with host Jay Famiglietti to discuss how the engineered control of water sometimes does more harm than good. </p> <p>We also hear from <strong>Nicholas Pinter</strong> about 'Design with Nature' and how communities are managing retreats from the floodplains.</p>
July 22, 2024
Go With the Flow: Erica Gies on Embracing Water's Natural Path
<p>What happens when we change our relationship to water? Can we stop trying to control water and just go with the flow?</p> <p><strong>Erica Gies</strong>, environmental journalist, National Geographic Explorer, and author of Water Always Wins: Thriving in an Age of Drought and Deluge sits down with host Jay Famiglietti to discuss how the engineered control of water sometimes does more harm than good. </p> <p>We also hear from <strong>Nicholas Pinter</strong> about 'Design with Nature' and how communities are managing retreats from the floodplains.</p>
July 22, 2024
Sewage Spillover in 'Mexico's Toilet Bowl': The Endhó Dam Crisis
<p>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 from local industry and Mexico City. </p> <p>Arizona State University doctoral students <strong>Raquel Neri,</strong> in the School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment, and <strong>Diego Pantaleón</strong>, in the School of Social Transformation, join host Jay Famiglietti to discuss the devastating impact the contaminated water is having on local communities and water sources in Hidalgo, Mexico. </p> <p>We also hear from <strong>Yury Uribe</strong>, activist and member of El Movimiento Social por la Tierra - Social Movement for the Land in Mexico. She has been in the community all her life and lived near the Endhó Dam for 20 years. </p> <p>By June 7, 2024, officials from Mexico's federal health department met with community leaders to discuss ways to address public health concerns related to contaminants in the waters of the region, including the Endhó Dam. <a href= "https://www.gob.mx/semarnat/prensa/avanza-proceso-para-que-el-area-de-influencia-de-la-presa-endho-sea-decretada-zona-de-restauracion-ecologica?state=published" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Read the official statement</a> from Mexico's federal government announcing it has begun work to declare the Endhó dam as an ecological restoration zone: </p>
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