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Water Shelf Podcast
by Justin Scott-Coe
The Water Shelf Podcast is where authors, reviewers, academics, and aficionados discuss water books, past and present. For water book news and reviews and to sign up for our newsletter, please visit the Water Shelf website at mavensnotebook.com/watershelf. The Water Shelf is a production of Maven's Notebook, California's water news central – subscribe to weekly or daily emails at mavensnotebook.com.
Episodes
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"The Water Recycling Revolution" by Bill and Rosemarie Alley
The dynamic writing team Bill and Rosemarie Alley discuss their latest book, The Water Recycling Revolution: Tapping into the Future (Rowman & Littlefield, 2022). What's revolutionary about recycled water? How did we get over the "yuck factor"? What are recycled water developers currently getting...
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"Legal Geographies of Water" by Cristy Clark
Cristy Clark explores the "pluriverse of water realities" in her new book, Legal Geographies of Water: The Spaces, Places and Narratives of Human-Water Relations (Earthscan Routledge, 2025). Enjoy our lively conversation about how legal geography can both explain and improve human-water…
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“Body in a Barrel" by Aaron Mead
Season 3 of the Water Shelf Podcast begins with a bang! Aaron Mead, author of Body in a Barrel: A Las Vegas Mafia Crime Novella, talks with me about his fictional treatment of Lake Mead’s slow, climate-change-induced unveiling of long-immersed depths. Building on his written Water Shelf…
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"Living with Water Scarcity" by David Zetland
David Zetland gives a powerhouse interview on his many decades of writing on water, the commons, and climate change. He discusses his recently reissued book Living with Water Scarcity (2014/2023) which does a wonderful job explaining water economics to the general reader. We also get into why…
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"Replumbing the City" by Sayd Randle
In this episode, Sayd Randle joins us from Kathmandu, Nepal, to talk about her fascinating new book, Replumbing the City: Water Management as Climate Adaptation in Los Angeles (University of California Press, 2025). We discuss her ethnographic approach to water and the challenges and…
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"Too Good to Be True" by Paul Brown
Paul Brown joins the Water Shelf Podcast to discuss his unique, trailblazing, and entertaining book, Too Good to Be True: Scottsdale and Privatization in the 1980s (2020). His detailed account of a water treatment plant public-private partnership evokes both a specific time and place and larger...
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"Water: A Biography" by Giulio Boccaletti
Giulio Boccaletti provides a master class on water, politics, and social organization in this fascinating discussion of his book Water: A Biography (Pantheon Books, 2021). His "story of people and water" traces the historical dialectic between the practical realities of water management and the...
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"Water Management" by Shimon Anisfeld
Shimi Anisfeld kicks off Season 2 of the Water Shelf Podcast by introducing his fascinating book Water Management: Prioritizing Justice and Sustainability (Island Press, 2024) - an impressively comprehensive and immensely readable university textbook on this important topic supplemented by a free...
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"Liquid Asset" by Buzz Thompson
Buzz Thompson joins the Water Shelf Podcast to talk about his innovative and extraordinary new book, Liquid Asset: How Business and Government Can Partner to Solve the Freshwater Crisis (Stanford University Press, 2004). Barton H. “Buzz” Thompson, Jr. is the Robert E. Paradise Professor of…
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"Water for All" by David Sedlak
I have the great pleasure to speak with Dr. David Sedlak about his remarkable new book, Water for All: Global Solutions for a Changing Climate (Yale University Press, 2023). Dr. Sedlak is the Plato Malozemoff Professor of Environmental Engineering at University of California Berkeley. He is...
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"Water Always Wins" by Erica Gies
Erica Gies visits the Water Shelf podcast to talk about her fantastic and internationally distributed recent book, Water Always Wins: Thriving in an Age of Drought and Deluge (University of Chicago Press, 2022). Ms. Gies is an independent journalist covering science and the environment from...
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"The Profits of Distrust" by Manny Teodoro, Samantha Zuhlke, and David Switzer
In this episode, I talk with eminent scholars Drs. Manuel Teodoro, Samantha Zuhlke, and David Switzer about their recent book of immense importance to the water industry entitled The Profits of Distrust: Citizen-Consumers, Drinking Water, and the Crisis of Confidence in American Government...
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"The Three Ages of Water" by Peter Gleick
On this inaugural episode of the Water Shelf Podcast, I interview Dr. Peter Gleick about his recently published and highly acclaimed book The Three Ages of Water: Prehistoric Past, Imperiled Present, and a Hope for the Future (PublicAffairs, 2023). Dr. Peter Gleick is renowned nationally and...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
The Water Shelf Podcast is where authors, reviewers, academics, and aficionados discuss water books, past and present. For water book news and reviews and to sign up for our newsletter, please visit the Water Shelf website at mavensnotebook.com/watershelf. The Water Shelf is a production of Maven's Notebook, California's water news central – subscribe to weekly or daily emails at mavensnotebook.com.
HOSTED BY
Justin Scott-Coe
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The Water Shelf Podcast is where authors, reviewers, academics, and aficionados discuss water books, past and present. For water book news and reviews and to sign up for our newsletter, please visit the Water Shelf website at mavensnotebook.com/watershelf. The Water Shelf is a production of Maven's...
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