The Water Justice Podcast

On the latest episode of the Water Justice Hub podcast, we were fortunate enough to catch up with four special guest researchers from across the globe, who were recently in our home city of Canberra attending a workshop on Drinking Water Quality. We hear from:

Gabriela Sacco, the Director of the Institute of Global Dialogue and Culture of Encounter.

Nina Lansbury, Associate Professor from the School of Public Health at the University...

In this episode of Riverside Chats, Quentin catches up with a former colleague of his, Dr Pamela Katic. Pamela is the Associate Professor in Economics at the Natural Resources Institute at the University of Greenwich. Pamela has travelled extensively, conducting field research in remote locations within the Amazon and in Yukon, Canada. In their chat by the river Thames in London, Pamela discussed the complex water security issues f...

Quentin Grafton is in Glasgow, Scotland, catching up with two prominent academics within the water space, Professor Cecilia Tortajada and Professor Asit Biswas. Professor Tortajada is from the School of Social and Environmental Sustainability at the University of Glasgow, she is a member of the OECD Initiative on Water Governance and has twice received the Research Excellence Award from the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy. Pro...

On today’s episode of Riverside Chats, Quentin Grafton speaks with David Hannah, who is a Professor of Hydrology at the University of Birmingham. Professor Hannah is also the Director of the Birmingham Institute for Sustainability and Climate Action and he holds a UNESCO chair in water science. David’s work aims to understand how the water cycle works, how it’s evolving as a result of a changing climate and then using that kno...

On today’s episode of Riverside Chats, Host Quentin Grafton is in London, meeting with Professor Robert Costanza, an ecological economist from the University College London, and Ida Kubiszewski, Associate Professor for Global Prosperity, also from University College London. Their work aims to understand how our economic social systems interact with the global water cycle and how such an interdependent relationship can be best manag...

Safa and Quentin are very pleased to be joined with Joyeeta Gupta, Professor of Environment and Development in the Global South at the University of Amsterdam and Professor of Law and Policy in Water Resources and Environment at IHE Delft Institute for Water Education. Professor Gupta is also co-chair of the Earth Commission and she is the latest winner of the the Spinoza Prize, the highest scientific award within the Netherlands. ...

The Water Justice Hub's Quentin Grafton and Safa Fanaian attended the UN Water Conference in New York in March 2023. This second UN water conference sought to unite the world around the water crisis and accelerate action towards water and sanitation for all. Three guests share their reflections about the conference.

Guests:

Professor Robert Hope, Professor of Water Policy, University of Oxford

Dr. Nate Matthews, CEO of the Global ...

This episode of the Water Justice Podcast is a collection of stories, recounting events from around regional Australia which received flooding throughout the Murray Darling Basin across 2022 and into 2023. New South Wales, Victoria, and South Australia experienced severe flooding in the late spring months in a La Nina event. Recorded at the end of the 2023-2023 Australian summer, five people from different areas along the flooded r...

Kat Taylor attended the International Association of Hydrogeologists' Australian Groundwater Conference 2022 in November of 2022. At the conference which was themed "Science, Resilience, and Adaption", Kat caught up with several experts in the field of groundwater to ask some questions and get to the crux of what mattered at this year's conference.

You can follow our guests' work (in order of appearance):

Dr Rick Evans on Hyd...

Growing food takes water and energy, among other resources, while diminishing natural water resources through hydro-energy dams can restrict food sources like fish. When our needs for food, energy, and water are all growing, how do our actions in one area impact the other? If you start to solve our modern environmental problems by considering the relationship between these needs, or the "Food-Energy-Water Nexus", water justice can ...

Floods are a threat to many people across the world, and they are getting more frequent as our weather becomes more extreme due to climate change. The destructive power of water bares an interesting contrast to the devastation of drought, yet some places are experiencing both in a short period of time. How do the complexities of climate change paired with the threat of natural disasters appear to children who live through these exp...

Groundwater makes up a significant portion of the water resources equation. Yet, like an iceberg, because it is not seen, any danger lurking below the surface is not appreciated. Securing our water resources is as much an important consideration for humanity as climate change, so why isn't it talked about? Jay Famiglietti, Executive Director of Global Institute for Water Security at the University of Saskatchewan joins the Water Ju...

To finish series one of the Water Justice Podcast we have the 'Bending Towards Water Justice Panel'. Panelists answer questions related to their research and how they take their findings and bring them to the world in serving water justice. This episode celebrates a special edition journal guest-edited by Safa Fanaian, Gabriela Sacco, Luis Liberman, and Quentin Grafton. The special issue of the International Journal of Water Resour...

This podcast tells the story of Water in Australia. We are joined by guests who have fought for their land, for their water, and for their environments. Joined by water warriors, Kat and Tim discover how water is being undervalued and explore how to join the fight in restoring the precious relationships we share with water in Australia.

Discover more of Jamie Kirkpatrick's work and our reference for this podcast.

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Our water needs are so varied in our roles as individuals, as part of a collective, and as part of the living world, that is difficult to see how it can be all things to all people. We ask so much of such a vital natural resource and we achieve a lot with it, but when we are not united in our intentions for water it can cause serious harm. How do you balance the priorities of individuals and government, or intergovernmental organiz...

Inequitable access to drinking water is a problem worldwide, including in the so-called ‘Global North'. The United States of America, for example, is a wealthy country; yet many people lack access to clean, safe and affordable water. Water infrastructure is complicated and expensive, and the governance of water in the USA is fractured. Tim and Kat had the opportunity to discuss some of the challenges the USA faces and pathway...

Our journey through water justice concepts brings us to Latin America, where large water supplies are met with pollution, and areas in desperate need of investment are met with corruption. Through Central and South America we can observe where policy actions are lacking, but great research and incentives are seeking to ameliorate water stresses. While Mexico experiences political entropy surrounding the regulation of water resource...

Africa is the first focal point as a case study to introduce concepts of water Justice. This is a continent where access to water has been made difficult for predominantly social, economic, and geographic reasons. Africa best highlights the obvious inequities and water injustice we must confront. From urban centres like Cape Town to arid rural land in Botswana and developing infrastructure in Nigeria, Africa's water scarcity is rea...

The Water Justice Pod is an initiative of the Water Justice Hub and serves as an accessible interface with the public, a domain for water justice advocacy, and an introduction to the challenges we face as water warriors, this trailer features Executive Producer and Convener of the Water Justice Hub, Quentin Grafton, opening the podcast, explaining the purpose of the podcast and describing the intended audience. We are excited to sh...