The WATERSHED investigations

The paradise islands of Tuvalu are disappearing beneath the waves as climate change bites. Grace Malie, a Tuvaluan Youth Delegate from the Rising Nations Initiative speaks from COP28 about her hopes and fears and reluctance to abandon her home. Then Margaret Leinen, the Director of Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego, sets out her hopes for more ocean action at the COP in Dubai.

In each episode, investigative journalists Leana Hosea and Rachel Salvidge bring you tales from the frontline of the water crisis, interviewing:

• Someone on the frontline of the water crisis who is experiencing first hand pollution/drought/floods/extinction events and diseases driven by climate change and bad management.
• A world class expert, who can shed light on the causes and solutions to the issue in hand.

Find out more about Leana and Rachel's work at Watershed Investigations @WATERSHED_i

Frequency: Fortnightly

Duration: Approx. 20 minutes

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Former US EPA official Kyla Bennett talks about her exposure to cancer-linked PFAS chemicals, and Rob Bilott, the lawyer described as 'DuPont's worst nightmare' and who is played by Mark Ruffalo in the Hollywood film Dark Waters, tells Rachel and Leana how he is escalating his legal challenge against the manufacturers of PFAS. Manmade PFAS chemicals are widespread in the environment and they're likely to be in the blood of everyone on the planet, which is very bad news because some of them have been linked to cancers, and liver and thyroid disease among others.

In each episode, investigative journalists Leana Hosea and Rachel Salvidge bring you tales from the frontline of the water crisis, interviewing:

• Someone on the frontline of the water crisis who is experiencing first hand pollution/drought/floods/extinction events and diseases driven by climate change and bad management.
• A world class expert, who can shed light on the causes and solutions to the issue in hand.

Find out more about Leana and Rachel's work at Watershed Investigations @WATERSHED_i

Frequency: Fortnightly

Duration: Approx. 20 minutes

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In this 15 minute briefing, Leana and Rachel pour over Labour's pledges to crack down on the water companies and their other environment promises at the party conference. How much is new, how does it compare to Tory plans and what wasn't said. The devil is always in the detail.

Find out more about Leana and Rachel's work at Watershed Investigations @WATERSHED_i

Frequency: Fortnightly

Duration: Approx. 20 minutes

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Rachel and Leana hear how the beloved River Wye has spiralled from a "crystal clear" natural paradise to a "pea green" algal bloom soup in one man's lifetime. Fly fishing guide Nathan Jubb talks about life on the river and how he places the blamed for its pollution squarely at the feet of agriculture, specifically chicken farms. Then Greenpeace's chief scientific adviser Dr Doug Parr rails against the government's "cowardice" and "morally culpable error" in rowing back on its climate commitments.

In each episode, investigative journalists Leana Hosea and Rachel Salvidge bring you tales from the frontline of the water crisis, interviewing:

• Someone on the frontline of the water crisis who is experiencing first hand pollution/drought/floods/extinction events and diseases driven by climate change and bad management.
• A world class expert, who can shed light on the causes and solutions to the issue in hand.

Find out more about Leana and Rachel's work at Watershed Investigations @WATERSHED_i

Frequency: Fortnightly

Duration: Approx. 20 minutes

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In these 10 minute briefings, investigative journalists Leana Hosea and Rachel Salvidge discuss the latest news developments. In this episode they explore the anger around the government's plans to discard protections for rivers against sewage and farm pollution. They also reveal the government's reduction in river testing.

Find out more about Leana and Rachel's work at Watershed Investigations @WATERSHED_i

Frequency: Ad hoc

Duration: Approx. 10 minutes

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Rachel and Leana hear how the government has "wasted the last 10 years or so in terms of making proper preparations for the way the climate is changing", according to Dame Julia King, Baroness Brown of Cambridge, who advises the UK government on preparing for climate change. She says there has been "underinvestment and underpreparation" while temperatures in Europe are "rising at about twice the global average". They also hear from an angry Guy Singh-Watson, owner of Riverford Organic farms, who's lost crops due to drought and who is embarrassed to have to pump water from a stream until it's dried up, when he would rather get help to build a reservoir.

In each episode, investigative journalists Leana Hosea and Rachel Salvidge bring you tales from the frontline of the water crisis, interviewing:

• Someone on the frontline of the water crisis who is experiencing first hand pollution/drought/floods/extinction events and diseases driven by climate change and bad management.
• A world class expert, who can shed light on the causes and solutions to the issue in hand.

Find out more about Leana and Rachel's work at Watershed Investigations @WATERSHED_i

Frequency: Fortnightly

Duration: Approx. 20 minutes

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Cape Town teeters on the edge of Day Zero - the time when water will no longer flow from its taps. But poorer residents are first the feel the thirst and say water rationing is slowly killing them. Rachel and Leana speak to Cape Town residents, including Faeza Meyer from the African Water Commons Collective, about the desperate situation, and interview Professor Hannah Cloke from the University of Reading, whose new study shows that it is the 'elite' - people who have swimming pools and large gardens - who are driving water crisis just as much as climate change and population growth.

In each episode, investigative journalists Leana Hosea and Rachel Salvidge bring you tales from the frontline of the water crisis, interviewing:

• Somone on the frontline of the water crisis who is experiencing first hand pollution/drought/floods/extinction events and diseases driven by climate change and bad management.
• A world class expert, who can shed light on the causes and solutions to the issue in hand.

From: Watershed Investigations https://watershedinvestigations.com/ @WATERSHED_i

Frequency: Fortnightly

Duration: Approx. 20 minutes

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Rachel and Leana interview Nyombi Morris, an environmental activist who was flooded out of his home in Uganda, where drought and locusts are also causing death and displacement. Then Sir David King, former chief scientific adviser to prime ministers Blair, Brown, Cameron and May, explains how he plans to reverse the climate crisis by refreezing the Arctic, and reacts to Nyombi's accusations that the West has reneged on its climate finance promises.

In each episode, investigative journalists Leana Hosea and Rachel Salvidge bring you tales from the frontline of the water crisis, interviewing:

Somone on the frontline of the water crisis who is experiencing first hand pollution/drought/floods/extinction events and diseases driven by climate change and bad management.A world class expert, who can shed light on the causes and solutions to the issue in hand.

Find out more about Leana and Rachel's work at Watershed Investigations @WATERSHED_i

Frequency: Fortnightly

Duration: Approx. 20 minutes

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Rachel and Leana tackle the malodorous issue of raw sewage pollution. Human waste flows through the UK's rivers and seas, fuelling outrage among the population, not least in former rock and pop star Feargal Sharkey, whose righteous fury has kept the scandal at the top of the agenda in the mainstream media and ruffled more than a few feathers in government. In this episode, Sharkey digs into the root causes of what he calls a "catastrophic failure of regulation" and lends his support to direct action as a last resort, when the grown-ups have failed to act. Leana and Rachel also hear from Tom Haward, an oysterman whose family has cultivated oysters in Essex for centuries and who is taking the government to court in a bid to protect his business from future pollution.

In each episode, investigative journalists Leana Hosea and Rachel Salvidge bring you tales from the frontline of the water crisis, interviewing:

• Somone on the frontline of the water crisis who is experiencing first hand pollution/drought/floods/extinction events and diseases driven by climate change and bad management.
• A world class expert, who can shed light on the causes and solutions to the issue in hand.

Find out more about Leana and Rachel's work at Watershed Investigations @WATERSHED_i

Frequency: Fortnightly

Duration: Approx. 20 minutes

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.