Water Resources Podcast
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.
The Water Resources Podcast is a production of the Bureau of Economic Geology, The Jackson School of Geosciences at the University of Texas at Austin in partnership with the National Academy of Engineering. The podcast is supported by the Fisher Foundation.
- Update frequency
- every 14 days
- Average duration
- 50 minutes
- Episodes
- 64
- Years Active
- 2023 - 2025
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 …
00:50:07 |
Thu 25 Jan 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.
00:51:13 |
Thu 11 Jan 2024
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.
00:53:36 |
Thu 28 Dec 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.
00:53:11 |
Thu 14 Dec 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.
00:50:12 |
Thu 30 Nov 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.
00:50:51 |
Thu 16 Nov 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
00:48:52 |
Thu 02 Nov 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.
00:43:28 |
Thu 19 Oct 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.
00:54:46 |
Thu 05 Oct 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…
00:48:54 |
Thu 21 Sep 2023
Understanding the Origin of Atmospheric Rivers in the Southwest US
Mike Dettinger discusses the origin and evolution of atmospheric rivers and their importance in managing reservoir storage in the Southwest US.
01:04:06 |
Thu 24 Aug 2023
Groundwater Issues and Potential Solutions in the Southwest United States
Bill Alley discusses groundwater scarcity issues in Arizona and California, evolving approaches to groundwater governance, and proposed solutions through conjunctive management of surface water and g…
00:53:11 |
Thu 10 Aug 2023
Bengal Water Machine
Mohammad Shamsudduha (Shams) discusses the Bengal Water Machine, where seasonal groundwater depletion from irrigation creates space for increased recharge during summer monsoons in Bangladesh, captur…
00:48:29 |
Thu 27 Jul 2023
Achieving Global Development Goals
Karen Villholth discusses importance of groundwater in achieving the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals related to water and food security with particular emphasis in Sub-Saharan Africa.
00:40:40 |
Thu 13 Jul 2023
Groundwater Resilience to Climate Extremes/Change in Tropical Africa
Richard Taylor discusses linkages between rainfall extremes related to ENSO and episodic groundwater recharge, and how amplification of rainfall extremes under climate change may increase groundwater…
00:55:58 |
Thu 29 Jun 2023
Applying Geophysics to Explore and Develop Groundwater in Sub-Saharan Africa
Paul Bauman discusses the use of geophysics to improve groundwater development in (semi)arid and underserviced regions in Sub-Saharan Africa. He trains communities and applies these approaches to inc…
00:53:59 |
Thu 15 Jun 2023
Food Supply Chains and Water Resources
Megan Konar talks about linkages between global food trade and climate extremes (droughts and floods) and groundwater over-exploitation. The future outlook for food security seems good as the global …
00:49:59 |
Thu 01 Jun 2023
Managing Extremes in Australia
Quentin Grafton talks about floods and droughts in Australia and approaches to managing these extremes.
00:49:10 |
Thu 18 May 2023
Atmospheric Rivers in California
Mike Dettinger talks about recent atmospheric rivers in California this past winter and their role in increasing rainfall, snowpack, reservoir storage and mitigating drought.
00:46:23 |
Thu 04 May 2023
Groundwater and Surface Water: A Single Resource
Lenny Konikow is the Editor Editor-in-Chief of Groundwater journal and Emeritus Scientist with U.S. Geological Survey following 42-year career as a research hydrologist. His research focuses on groun…
00:49:50 |
Thu 20 Apr 2023
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