jivetalking

Episode 210 (11 Oct 2022): Soazic Guezennec is a French visual artist who has lived in Berlin for 6 years. Prior to that, she was 6 years in India. She works with different media -- paint, video, installations, land art --- to question the relationship between human beings and their environment.

www.soazicguezennec.com

Episode 209 (7 Nov 2012): Matthew Pearson worked for a time with Living Water International. (He's since moved on to Moon Fabrications -- see JT episode below.) Back in 2012, we talked about his efforts to evaluate success in charitable programs aimed at bringing water to the poor, and there's a lot of depth in his replies. Listen in!

https://soundcloud.com/jivetalking/42-matthew-pearson-navigates-the-twists-of-life

Moon Fab: https://moonfab.com

Episode 208 (4 Oct 2022): David Wegner ([email protected]) is currently a member of the Water, Science and Technology Board of the National Academy of Sciences and works part time for Woolpert Engineering on water, climate and financing for water infrastructure. He retired from the U.S. House of Representatives where he served on the Natural Resources and Transportation and Infrastructure Committees. He currently is writing on improving adaptive management of water resources by improving the governance and application of science. He lives in Tucson, Arizona in the epicenter of climate driven aridification of the Colorado River basin.

Episode 207 (20 Oct 2012): This discussion is from 10 years ago but it could have been yesterday. Jamie Workman, who has appeared since (see below), discusses his experiences and lessons learned while working on dams, with the bushmen of the Kalahari, and how to reform fisheries for long term survival.

Jamie's book, Heart of Dryness:

http://kysq.org/aguanomics/2009/08/heart-of-dryness-the-review/

Prior JT episodes:

https://soundcloud.com/jivetalking/27-jamie-workman-pays-water-savers

https://soundcloud.com/jivetalking/76-has-no-regrets-about-his-semi-random-life-path

Episode 206 (9 Aug 2022): Pieter Teer graduated from Leiden University College in 2021 and has spent the majority of the past months working at a development foundation based in Rwanda. In the coming year, he will pursue his masters at INSEAD, studying in France and Singapore.

Poverty Inc: http://kysq.org/aguanomics/2016/03/poverty-inc-the-review/

https://soundcloud.com/jivetalking/144-laura-and-pieter-reflect-on-grades-success-and-life

Episode 205 (8 Oct 2012): In this 2012 episode, Shahram Javey (https://www.linkedin.com/in/sjavey/) explains how he started Aquacue, his smart meter business, which he sold only a year later to the largest metering company in the US (see below). Shahram is still working on smart metering.

https://kysq.org/aguanomics/2013/04/aquacue-gets-paid-for-innovation-and-customers-win/

Episode 204 (8 Aug 2022): Rhys Evans is a professor of Human Geography at the University College of Green Development in Bryne (‘Breena’) Norway. He works to create and share tools which help local people and communities engage in projects which deliver the improvements they have identified and are willing to work towards creating. A musician who also drove trucks for a living in Canada and the USA for 25 years, he began university at the age of 39 and likes to think that his ‘groundedness’ based upon how he worked for a living gives him an important insight into how development works for people and communities and he tailors his ‘tools’ to take that into account. Some of his tools include a model of Vocational Transition in Rural Europe; the Repurposing of Cultural Heritage Assets for the 21st Century Economy; Asset-based Rural Community Development, and Regenerative Development.

https://hgut.no/om-hlb/tilsette/rhys-evans/

Playlist on the history of Vancouver

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLkSVuMuRES0i2llgOopErgNE3ebtR4-pW

Episode 203 (8 Jun 2012): Tony Allen (1937-2021) coined the term "virtual water." In this 2012 interview (sorry about the background noise), we discuss how he came up with the idea and the difficulty of getting politicians to pay attention to their lack of water (and food) security.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/may/07/tony-allan-obituary

https://www.iwra.org/in-memoriam-tony-allan/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Anthony_Allan

https://kysq.org/aguanomics/2008/03/virtual-water/

https://kysq.org/aguanomics/2012/06/water-chat-tony-allan/

https://kysq.org/aguanomics/2016/11/all-studies-intending-to-use-a-virtual-water-strategy-to-solve-problems-of-water-scarcity-may-stop-now/

Episode 202 (4 Aug 2022): Jonatan Godinez Madrigal ([email protected]) was born in Guadalajara, Mexico. He first graduated from International Relations (2007) in the Jesuit University of Guadalajara, where he began working in the political ecology group of the Jesuit University where he conducted inter-disciplinary research on water conflicts and crises, but especially on the possibility of transforming water systems. With that spirit, he started his PhD at IHE Delft, focusing on a transdisciplinary action research project to analyse and transform the most intractable water conflict in Mexico, the Zapotillo conflict. He recently obtained his PhD last April and contributed to resolve and transform the Zapotillo conflict.

Slogan: "Water for everybody, water forever." ("Agua por todos agua para siempre")

Jonatan's dissertation: https://ihedelftrepository.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/phd1/id/60465/rec/1

A short article on his work with the community:

https://www.un-ihe.org/news/mexico-ihe-delft-researchers-help-residents-three-towns-stave-flooding-threat-posed-dam

Episode 201 (28 Mar 2012): In this 2012 interview, Don Gaydon (https://people.csiro.au/G/D/Don-Gaydon) tells me about the complexities of irrigation in Australia.

https://kysq.org/aguanomics/2012/05/water-chat-don-gaydon/