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The Water Data Podcast
The Water Data Podcast is a talk show on the science, systems, and stories of water hosted by Veena Srinivasan. Every other Tuesday, sit down and listen to researchers, innovators, government officials and business leaders working on the forefront of water systems.
Veena Srinivasan is an award-winning socio-hydrologist as well as the founder and Executive Director of WELL Labs, a water systems research and innovation centre based in Bengaluru, India.
The Water Data Podcast features discussions…
Episodes
The Water Data PodcastIndia's Drinking Water Crisis with Dr. Sunderrajan Krishnan
What if the water you drink every day looks perfectly safe but contains contaminants that could affect your health for years? Millions of people in India…
The Water Data PodcastBengal’s Arsenic Groundwater Crisis Explained with Prof. Abhijit Mukherjee
How does water that looks perfectly clean contain dangerous levels of arsenic? Even after decades of research and treatment technologies, why does arsenic…
The Water Data PodcastHow can we measure Evapotranspiration from Space? with Gilles Boulet
Can we measure evapotranspiration from space? And when a satellite produces a map of crop water use, how certain are those numbers? Dr. Gilles Boulet joins…
The Water Data Podcast25 Years of Watching Groundwater at the Kabini Critical Zone Observatory with Sekhar Muddu
What can 25 years of observing the same watershed teach us about groundwater? Can intensive pumping make groundwater deeper in valleys than on hills? Can…
The Water Data PodcastWhy Safe Drinking Water Is More Than a Technology Problem with Isha Ray
What does it actually take to provide safe and affordable drinking water for everyone? And if households must store, filter, boil or buy water before they can…
The Water Data PodcastWhy More Water Won't Fix Water Scarcity with Newsha Ajami
How does saving water create a financial crisis for the utilities that supply it? And why do cities continue building water systems based on laws…
The Water Data PodcastHow does the world measure water? with Maggie Kossida
What does it mean to measure water for the entire planet? Who collects the data behind SDG 6? And how do numbers from hundreds of countries become a global…
The Water Data PodcastCan Data Help Communities Govern Water with Aaditeshwar Seth
What if technology was designed not to manage communities, but to strengthen their voice and agency? In this episode of the Water Data Podcast, Professor…
The Water Data PodcastWater Security: 80 Years of Global Water Policy with Dr Roberto Lenton
Where did the idea of “water security” come from? How did countries around the world come to agree on shared goals for drinking water, sanitation, river basin…
The Water Data PodcastWater Accounting across Scales with Wim Bastiannsen
How can satellites measure crop water use from space? Can they help farmers irrigate more precisely, improve yields, and make water distribution fairer across…
The Water Data PodcastThe Deep Politics of Canal Irrigation in India with Peter Mollinga
Why do canal irrigation systems repeatedly produce head-tail inequality? Why do some farmers receive reliable water while others are systematically deprived…
The Water Data PodcastCalifornia's Groundwater Governance Successes | Dr. Maurice Hall
California’s groundwater crisis did not emerge overnight. Decades of unrestricted pumping, falling groundwater levels, land subsidence, disappearing…
The Water Data PodcastThe Hidden Politics of Water Systems | Margreet Zwarteveen
Why is water never just a technical problem? Who gets water, who loses access, and who gets to decide? In this episode of the Water Data Podcast, Professor…
The Water Data PodcastHow Satellite Tech Imaged the Global Groundwater Crisis | James (Jay) Famiglietti
How can a satellite measure water buried deep underground? What can space-based observations tell us about groundwater depletion across the world? And how is…
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The Water Data Podcast is back with Season 3!
Listen to host Veena Srinivasan as she continues to talk to researchers, innovators, government officials and business leaders working on the forefront of…
The Water Data PodcastThe Social Science of Water: Beyond Hydrology ft Trevor Birkenholtz | Water Data Podcast
What does water have to do with power, caste, labor, and economic policy? In this episode of the Water Data Podcast, Professor Trevor Birkenholtz (Penn State…
The Water Data PodcastParticipatory Groundwater Management with Himanshu Kulkarni | The Water Data Podcast
In this episode of The Water Data Podcast, host Veena Srinivasan speaks with Dr. Himanshu Kulkarni, hydrogeologist and co-founder of ACWADAM, about groundwater…
The Water Data PodcastHimanshu Kulkarni and Indian Hydrogeology | The Water Data Podcast
In this episode of The Water Data Podcast, host Veena Srinivasan speaks with Dr. Himanshu Kulkarni, hydrogeologist and co-founder of ACWADAM, about groundwater…
The Water Data PodcastThe Art of Good Hydrological Modelling | Hubert Savenije
How can simple models explain the complexity of rivers, landscapes and water systems? Why does hydrology sometimes struggle to connect theory and reality? In…
The Water Data PodcastNitrogen and Phosphorous Leave a Legacy of Water Pollution | Nandita Basu
When a lake turns green with algae, or nitrate shows up in drinking water, the most obvious question would be: Why can’t we fix this quickly? In this episode…
The Water Data PodcastEco-Hydrology with Jagdish Krishnaswamy
How do forests shape our water security? Why do rivers need to flow? And what happens to fish, turtles and gharials when dams shut off water? In this episode…
The Water Data PodcastCreating Space for Water Collaboration with Henk Ovink
In this episode, host Veena Srinivasan speaks with Henk Ovink who is often called the world’s first “Water Diplomat” for a deep and wide-ranging conversation…
The Water Data PodcastGroundwater, Climate Resilience & Africa’s Aquifers with Richard Taylor | Ep 8
How should we understand groundwater in a warming world? Why has groundwater become the climate resilience resource for millions of people and what do we now…
The Water Data PodcastEnvironmental Water flows with Kate Brauman and Sejal Worah
How do we balance the science of water flows with the spiritual and social lives that rivers sustain? What does it mean to define “environmental flows” in a…
The Water Data PodcastFertiliser overuse and Nitrogen pollution with Esha Zaveri
Nitrogen has been feeding billions, but it is now overloading our soils, waters, and air. Why is the fertilizer that fuels our food supply also creating a…
The Water Data PodcastGroundwater in the Indo-Gangetic Basin with Alan M MacDonald
What makes the Indo-Gangetic Basin one of the most important aquifers in the world? How do stable isotopes, CFCs, and even traces of pharmaceuticals help us…
The Water Data PodcastHydrology in the 21st Century with Dr Murugesu Sivapalan
Professor Murugesu Sivapalan shares how the field of hydrology has evolved over the past few decades, on Season 2, Episode 5 of the Water Data Podcast. Prof…
The Water Data PodcastCommunity and Groundwater Science with Dr Tom Gleeson
Host Veena Srinivasan sits down with Dr. Tom Gleeson, renowned hydrologist and Professor at the University of Victoria, Canada. Dr. Tom Gleeson shares his…
The Water Data PodcastFlood Science and Management with Dr Guenter Bloeschl
How and why does flooding take place? How are flood risks evolving with climate change and large-scale human alteration of riverscapes and watersheds? Does it…
The Water Data PodcastGroundwater and Markets with Dr Soumya Balasubramanya
Do farmers share and sell groundwater to each other informally? Can you price water for farmers? How does new technology get adopted in agriculture? Does solar…
The Water Data PodcastGoverning Water Resources with Dr Somasekhar Rao
How do you develop a water policy for a state like Karnataka, and how do you implement it well? How can you bring the best of science, engineering and citizen…
The Water Data PodcastTrailer | Welcome to the Water Data Podcast!
The Water Data Podcast is a talk show on the science, systems, and stories of water hosted by Veena Srinivasan. Every other Tuesday, sit down and listen to…
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Corporate Water Stewardship & Data with Jason Morrison and Hari Hegde
The episode focuses on the role and use of data for corporate water stewardship. Our guests Hari Hegde from Wipro Limited and Jason Morisson from the CEO Water…
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Data for Water Quality and Public Health with Ranjiv Khush and Sunderrajan Krishnan
In this episode, Ranjiv Khush from Aquaya Institute and Dr. Sunderrajan Krishnan from INREM foundation walk us through their journey with water data and its…
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The Importance of Water Data with Peter Gleick and Rohini Nilekani
In the first episode episode, our guests Peter Gleick from Pacific Institute and Rohini Nilekani from Arghyam, join us to talk about the role and importance of…