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Water Talks
by Tracy Metz
Water is fundamental! That’s why, for the first time in 47 years, the UN organized a worldwide conference on water in 2023, hosted by the Netherlands and Tajikistan. Will it help? To find out, Tracy Metz spoke to all sorts of people in New York and the Netherlands - artists, activists, urban designers, students, officials - who all share the same sense of urgency as we are confronted with too much water or too little, too dirty and … too unequal. This… is ‘Water Talks’! This podcast is made possible by the Dutch Ministry of Water and Infrastructure (I&W).
Episodes
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10 Water Talks - Big Five :Rohit Aggarwala
Episode Notes This is the Big Five, the companion series to the podcast Water Talks, with five one-on-one interviews with some of the extraordinary speakers from the main episodes. This is a conversation with Rohit Aggarwala, the Chief Climate Officer of New York City and the commissioner of the...
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9 Water Talks - Big Five: Kate Orff
Episode Notes This is the Big Five, the companion series to the podcast Water Talks, with five one-on-one interviews with some of the extraordinary speakers from the main episodes. This is a conversation with Kate Orff. She has her own studio, Scape, and is a professor at Columbia University in…
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8 Water Talks - Big Five: Matthijs Bouw
Episode Notes Shownotes: This is the Big Five, the companion series to the podcast Water Talks, with five one-on-one interviews with some of the extraordinary speakers from the main episodes. Matthijs Bouw is a Dutch architect and urban designer who has lived in New York now for eight years. With...
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7 Water Talks - The Big Five: Russell Shorto
Episode Notes This is the Big Five, the companion series to the podcast Water Talks, with one-on-one interviews with some of the extraordinary speakers from the main episodes. This is a conversation with Russell Shorto. He is an American writer and a historian, a former director of the John Adams...
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6 Water Talks - The Big Five: Henk Ovink
This is the Big Five, the companion series to the podcast Water Talks, with one-on-one interviews with some of the extraordinary speakers from the main episodes. This is a conversation with ‘Mister Water’ himself: Henk Ovink. He was influential in shaping planning and water policy in the...
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5 Water Talks: Too Unequal
Episode Notes This episode is about the tension between water as a source of profit and water as a basic human right. After all, if clean water has to be profitable, some people, lots of people, are sure to lose out. As the director of UN Habitat, Maimounah Mohd Sharif is dedicated to helping the...
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4 Water Talks: Too Dirty
Episode Notes There is less and less potable water on the planet and what we do have is getting dirtier and dirtier. We’ve let ourselves ruin this essential resource in the name of profit, or carelessness. The Netherlands is good at keeping the water out, but Europe puts us at the bottom of its...
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3 Water Talks: Too Little
Too little water is a problem that directly affects our survival as a species. That’s why the Dutch artist Rene van Engelenburg built the Water Arch, a carnival ride that shows, in the most fun way possible, just how much water we waste. But too little contact with water, taking it for granted…
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2 Water Talks: Too Much
Episode Notes It was the water that made Manhattan a desirable place already for the Dutch in the 17th century. Writer and historian Russell Shorto brings that story to life during a walk through what was once New Amsterdam. It was that same water that almost drowned the city when Hurricane Sandy...
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1 Water Talks: Too Close for Comfort
Episode Notes No, the UN Water Conference and the New York Water Week held in March of 2023 did not provide a silver bullet to solve the world’s water problems: too much, too little, too dirty and too unequal. (Not that anyone really expected that…) But yes, they did raise the world’s awareness…
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Water is fundamental! That’s why, for the first time in 47 years, the UN organized a worldwide conference on water in 2023, hosted by the Netherlands and Tajikistan. Will it help? To find out, Tracy Metz spoke to all sorts of people in New York and the Netherlands - artists, activists, urban designers, students, officials - who all share the same sense of urgency as we are confronted with too much water or too little, too dirty and … too unequal. This… is ‘Water Talks’! This podcast is made possible by the Dutch Ministry of Water and Infrastructure (I&W).
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Water is fundamental! That’s why, for the first time in 47 years, the UN organized a worldwide conference on water in 2023, hosted by the Netherlands and Tajikistan. Will it help? To find out, Tracy Metz spoke to all sorts of people in New York and the Netherlands - artists, activists, urban...
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