Water You Talking About

What happens when we simply let water researchers talk? They drop the filter and start talking about filters.

Our first Spanish-language Episode!

¡Nuestro primer episodio en Español! La Ciudad de México simplemente "emergió" de un lago. Chris y Joe discuten como este nacimiento ha influenciado la relación complicada entre un megalópolis y su agua.

In observance of "The Day Without Water", this radio drama-style episode invites listeners into a campy parody of the classic show "The Dating Game". A drop of water will fall from the sky and must choose its fate by questioning three different types of water management frameworks.

There is a silent, nearly invisible accident hiding in your plumbing and protecting that vital fluid that flows within it.

When cities grow, there are lots of changes to the environment, but one change you might not think of is what happens to natural surfaces when they are paved over. Let’s go back “Inside the PhD” and learn how a special type of urban development is changing stormwater runoff.

Victor Hugo said, "Paris has another Paris under herself. A Paris of sewers...There everything converges and confronts itself." What is it about the vast net work of tunnels that snake under this incredible city that has captured the imagination of writers, engineers, politicians, and even kings for hundreds of years?

One thing that becomes clear when you are a PhD student is that almost no one who is not a PhD themselves knows what a PhD student does. And how could they know? But to really understand our research, I think you have to understand the day-to-day for those of us in academia after we finish college. Today we coun down 5 facts that you ought to know about life in Grad School.

We continue to delve into PhD research by finding out why Joe is spinning electrons around at the speed of light. In this episode, clean water meets Big Science.

This episode, Water You Talking About gets personal. We delve into Joe's PhD research by getting his "elevator pitch." Stormwater is something that cities tried to get rid of for a long time, but now fresh water falling from the sky is starting to look pretty good. What are we doing about it?

Where can your city turn for drinking water when drought disrupts the normal supply? In Kingston, Jamaica the best alternative is groundwater, but there’s a catch – it’s heavily polluted. In this episode we learn about a public-private partnership to pump and treat the groundwater, but that’s just the beginning of the story...