In this episode, our guest is Camille Kirk, Director, Campus Sustainability Planner at UC Davis, California. We discuss with our guest the essential role of the leaders in the sustainability sector, water and women, stakeholders, and why sustainability has to be a long-term strategy.Visit: Sustainable UC DavisFor more info, visit: www.sei.org 

*Hosts:  Juan Carlos Giraldo  and Vishal Mehta.

*Music Credits: Corporate Happy by Zakhar Valaha  

*Production/Hosting: Juan Carlos Giraldo - Podcast and Business

*Episode art image credit: ⁠AFROG DESIGN UNIT / Moment via Getty Images⁠

California has been in the news in December and January, with extreme rainfall and floods, and this situation occurs after many years of intense drought.

For this episode, we have as guests two scientists from Stockholm Environment Institute: Chuck Young and Vishal Metha; both shared their work on Forecasting Water Supply in California and how these recent storms might help California's water conditions. 

For more info, visit: www.sei.org 

*Host:  Juan Carlos Giraldo  

*Music Credits: Corporate Happy by Zakhar Valaha   

*Production/Hosting: Juan Carlos Giraldo - Podcast and Business 

*Aditional Sounds Effects: Heavy Rain and Flooding: Pixabay Music

*Episode art image credit: ⁠AFROG DESIGN UNIT / Moment via Getty Images⁠

The Songkhram River in northeast Thailand is a tributary of the Mekong River, an important river in Asia. It provides essential habitat for more than 180 species of fish, with at least 58 species migrating between the basin and the Mekong River. The community members around the basin primarily work in fishing and floodplain agriculture, including rice cultivation and livestock, representing a sustainable economy within the communities.Today our guest is Thanapon Piman, a Senior Research Fellow with SEI Asia. He has more than 15 years of academic and professional experience in hydrology, water resources planning and modeling, sustainable irrigation and hydropower development, and climate change adaptation.In this episode, we discussed the Stockholm Environment Institute Initiative Water Beyond Boundaries and the community-based ecosystems in Thailand's lower Songkhram River basin.For more info, visit: www.sei.org

*Hosts: Vishal Mehta and Juan Carlos Giraldo 

*Music Credits: Corporate Happy by Zakhar Valaha 

*Production: Juan Carlos Giraldo - Podcast and Business

* Sound: Thailand Riverboat On the Mekong River by Epidemic Sound

*Episode art image credit: ⁠AFROG DESIGN UNIT / Moment via Getty Images⁠

Smallholder farmers in developing countries farm between half to two or three acres of land in developing countries and face enormous livelihood challenges. In this episode of Water Stories, we talk with our guest Rikin Gandhi, CEO of Digital Green, about the risks this community faces in several countries. We discuss how knowledge sharing is vital in increasing their resilience to climate and market uncertainties and building a stronger sense of community. For more information on Water Beyond Boundaries, visit www.sei.org  

Visit: Digital Green https://www.digitalgreen.org

*Hosts: Vishal Mehta and Juan Carlos Giraldo 

 *Music Credits: Corporate Happy by Zakhar Valaha  

*Production: Juan Carlos Giraldo - Podcast and Business.

*Episode art image credit: ⁠AFROG DESIGN UNIT / Moment via Getty Images⁠

In water management, we have to think about all those involved, communities, scientists, technology, and of course, the ecosystems that play an essential role on a small or large scale. During the second season's first episode conversation, we discuss Water Beyond Boundaries broadly and the main goals of this initiative. One of the pillars of the Water Beyond Boundaries initiative is natural ecosystems. In this episode, we will talk with our guest Max Stevenson, Streamkeeper from The Solano County Water Agency in California, about protecting those parts of our natural ecosystems, like the Chinook Salmon and the Putah creek's history, and its connection with Water Beyond Boundaries. For more information, visit www.sei.org 

*Hosts: Vishal Mehta and Juan Carlos Giraldo 

*Music Credits: Corporate Happy by Zakhar Valaha 

*Production: Juan Carlos Giraldo - Podcast and Business.

*Episode art image credit: ⁠AFROG DESIGN UNIT / Moment via Getty Images⁠

Adopting a single water narrative may lead to misinterpreting specific local challenges or denying how water is transferred through products or economic or physical connections across scales. We present how current water management approaches consider natural and social processes beyond boundaries and further explore the concept of water teleconnections with case studies from Colombia. In this episode: Claudia Coleoni, a Research Associate at SEI Latin America, discusses how local water goes global and the concept of Teleconnections in water management. For more information, visit www.sei.org

*Hosts: Vishal Mehta and Juan Carlos Giraldo

*Music Credits: Corporate Happy by Zakhar Valaha

*Production: Juan Carlos Giraldo - Podcast and Business

*Episode art image credit: ⁠AFROG DESIGN UNIT / Moment via Getty Images⁠

El acceso al agua es el mayor riesgo para la prosperidad mundial y para abordar los ODS. Los sectores involucrados enfrentan múltiples desafíos con respecto a la gestión del agua. La iniciativa Water Beyond Boundaries o Agua sin Límites del Stockholm Environment Institute busca transformar el proceso actual de toma de decisiones alrededor de la gestión del agua para responder a estos retos con sectores como la agricultura, gobernanza, ciencia, negocios, tecnología tanto de manera local como global. En este primer episodio de la segunda temporada de nuestro podcast tenemos como invitadas a Marisa Escobar, Directora del Programa de Agua en SEI US, con sede en la oficina de Davis, California. Su trabajo se centra en la creación de vínculos entre los procesos físicos y los sistemas socio-ecológicos y Tania Santos, investigadora en SEI Latinoamérica, con sede en Bogotá, Colombia y que cuenta con más de 12 años de experiencia trabajando en gestión integrada del agua con instituciones locales, regionales y nacionales en Colombia. Las invitadas nos explican los avances de esta gran iniciativa cómo el agua local se debe ver y gerenciar de manera globalizada, es decir, más allá de las frontera. Para más información visita www.sei.org *Host: Juan Carlos Giraldo 

*Music Credits: Corporate Happy by Zakhar Valaha *Producción: Juan Carlos Giraldo - Podcast and Business

*Episode art image credit: ⁠AFROG DESIGN UNIT / Moment via Getty Images⁠

El Día Internacional de las Niñas y Mujeres en la Ciencia este 2022 se celebró bajo el lema "El agua nos une: Equidad, Diversidad, Inclusión". Cada vez más, el rol de las mujeres desde la ciencia, la investigación y las entidades de cooperación se hace fundamental para comprender las realidades en torno al acceso a agua y saneamiento. En este episodio participan tres profesionales expertas en la gerencia del agua y evaluamos desde su perspectiva la efectiva participación de las mujeres en la ciencia, nuestras invitadas comparten sus experiencias, retos a los que se enfrentaron y enfrentan, así como también algunas expectativas a futuro en este interesante campo profesional.Marisa Escobar  - Directora del Programa de Agua del Stockholm Environment Institute en Estados UnidosTania Santos – Investigadora Adjunta Stockholm Environment Institute en LatinoaméricaFrida Rodhe – Especialista de programas en Medio Ambiente de la Agencia Sueca de Cooperación ASDIEste episodio fue conducido y producido por nuestra colaboradora en Bolivia Estefanía Rada.Visita: www.sei.org y Bolivia WATCHEdición y ajustes : Juan Carlos Giraldo*Music Credits: Corporate Happy by Zakhar Valaha*Episode art image credit: ⁠AFROG DESIGN UNIT / Moment via Getty Images⁠