Water Resources Podcast

By Bridget ScanlonScience Technology Education Earth Sciences

Water Resources Podcast episodes

January 25, 2024 Assessing the Barriers to Groundwater Development in Sub-Saharan Africa
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.
51 min
January 11, 2024 Assessing Global Climate Risks for the Reinsurance Industry and Beyond
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.
52 min
December 28, 2023 Managing China’s Water Scarcity and Excess
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.
54 min
December 14, 2023 Addressing Groundwater Scarcity and Arsenic Pollution with Potential Solutions in India
Abhijit discusses overexploitation of groundwater resources and arsenic contamination with potential solutions using managed aquifer recharge and stratified drilling to minimize arsenic exposure.
54 min
November 30, 2023 Evolution of Global Hydrologic Modeling and Methods for Transdisciplinary Risk Management
Petra Döll discusses the evolution of global hydrologic modeling, especially WaterGAP, as well as transdisciplinary knowledge integration in participatory processes in water and risk management.
51 min
November 16, 2023 Role of Groundwater in Developing Countries in the World Bank
Francois Bertone and Lucy Lytton discuss the recent World Bank report on The Hidden Wealth of Nations, The Economics of Groundwater in Times of Climate Change.
51 min
November 02, 2023 Protection of Groundwater and Wetland Ecosystems in Ireland and linkages to the Arts?
Laurence Gill assesses the importance of groundwater in rural Ireland, fingerprinting pollution sources from agriculture and humans, and using music to translate water flow in karst systems
49 min
October 19, 2023 Impacts of Global Water Quality on Water Scarcity and Potential Solutions
Michelle van Vliet discusses regional and global surface water quality, how water quality affects water scarcity, and potential solutions based on wastewater reuse and seawater desalination.
44 min
October 05, 2023 Groundwater Sustainability with Texas Focus
Robert Mace discusses groundwater sustainability issues, considering long-term evolution of different aquifers (Ogallala, Edwards, Trinity) with implications for future management.
55 min
September 21, 2023 European and Global Flooding: Role of Climate, Land Use, and Infrastructure
Günter Blöschl discusses recent flooding in Europe, causes of flooding, including climate change and land use change, engineering and nature-based solutions to reduce flood risk, and social hydrology aspects.
49 min

About Water Resources Podcast

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The Water Resources Podcast is designed to conduct interviews with experts to discuss challenges with water resources related to climate, such as droughts and floods, and overexploitation by humans. Potential solutions to these challenges are also discussed. Regions covered range from local to global scale, and approaches considered include satellite and ground-based monitoring, and global to regional modeling. The podcast is hosted by Bridget Scanlon, Bureau of Economic Geology, Jackson School of Geosciences, The University of Texas at Austin.