Water Resources Podcast

Bridget Scanlon

Education Science

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70 episodes

Increasing Resilience of Water Resources in San Antonio, Texas
11/12/2025 | 44 mins.
Karen Guz discusses water conservation and increasing supplies to meet the rising water needs for population growth and droughts in San Antonio.
Floods and Droughts in Texas
14/11/2025 | 48 mins.
John Nielsen-Gammon discusses climate extremes, including the July 4th flooding and 2011 drought, with insights into communicating risk.
Central Texas Flooding and Fatalities
30/10/2025 | 44 mins.
Hatim Sharif discusses recent central Texas flooding in Kerr County and San Antonio and flood fatalities.
Soil Health
16/10/2025 | 45 mins.
Nima Shokri discusses the importance of global soil health and its impacts on water resources, food security and sustainable development.
South African Lighthouse of Hope from Nature-Based Wastewater Treatment
02/10/2025 | 1h 8 mins.
Kevin Winter discusses nature-based approaches to treating informal settlement discharge for use in agriculture and other sectors.

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About 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.

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