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The Future of Water

As global water resources dwindle, the question of whether water is a human right or a commodity is increasingly timely. According to the United Nations, two thirds of the world will face serious water shortages by 2025. Today, 2 in 10 people do not have access to safe drinking water and 5 in 10 to adequate sanitation. Yet, water use increases at twice the rate of human population. With such alarming statistics what can be done to face the increasing threat of water scarcity around the globe?

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Water Investor Blue Green Algae Lead Pipes Future of Water H20 Urban Rez Water NAFTA Devils Lake Great Lakes Oil Sands

December 30, 2009 - Listen Now!
Erin Brockovich
Environmental activist Erin Brockovich talks to us about hexavalent chromium contamination of groundwater and trying to get corporations to take responsibility for their actions.

More info:
http://www.brockovich.com

December 16, 2009 - Listen Now!
Steven Solomon
Steven Solomon talks to us about his recent book: WATER: The Epic Struggle for Wealth, Power and Civilization.

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June 11, 2009 - Listen Now!
Liberal MP Francis Scarpaleggia
Founding chair of the national Liberal water caucus Francis Scarpaleggia talks to us about bringing Canada closer to a National Water Policy.

April 23, 2009 - Listen Now!
Pharma in the water
Herbert T. Buxton of the USGS Toxic Substances Hydrology Program talks to us about pharma in your drinking water and other toxics making it through wastewater treatment.

December 16, 2008 - Listen Now!
Climate Change Impact on Water
Virginia Burkett, Chief Scientist for Global Change Research at USGS talks to us about possible outcomes regarding climate change in the US and Canada from permanent drought in the southwest to increased rainfall in northern latitudes. -
Climate Change and Water -- IPCC Technical Paper VI

June 11, 2008 - Listen Now!
Presents for Clean Water
Gabriella Laws, a 6 year old girl from Calgary donates her birthday presents in order to bring clean water to Africa.
Visit her website here.

June 11, 2008 - Listen Now!
Climate Change & Archaeology
Professor Brian Fagan; Emeritus Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Santa Barbara talks to us about his recent book; The Great Warming, Climate Change and the Rise and Fall of Civilizations.

May 14, 2008 - Listen Now!
Climate Change and Transportation Panel
Climate Change and Transportation Panel featuring; Virginia Sickle-Burkett, Chief Scientist for Global Change Research at the USGS; Edward J. Dobson, Author and Professor; David Swann, MLA Mountain-View, AB; Dr. Barry Wellar, Professor Emeritus, University of Ottawa; and Hans-Peter Plag, Research Professor, University of Nevada.

May 2, 2008 - Listen Now!
Impact of Climate Change on Transportation Systems
Virginia R. Van Sickle-Burkett - Chief Scientist for Global Change Research at the US Geological Survey talks to us about a four year study which examined the impact of climate change on transportation systems in the Gulf Coast region.

April 30, 2008 - Listen Now!
LEED Panel - Sustainable Building
LEED Panel featuring Janine Benyus, President Biomimicry Institute, HOK Canada Richard Williams, VP Architecture, HOK Canada, Dan Paris, D.Tech (Arch), BSc, MBA Director of Development Vancity Enterprises and Jason F. McLennan, LEED AP, CEO, Seattle WA.

March 26, 2008 - Listen Now!
Stockholm Water Prize Laureate
Professor Tony Allan from King’s College London, and 2008 Stockholm Water Prize Laureate talks to us about his concept of Virtual Water.

March 13, 2008 - Listen Now!
Impending Prairie Drought
David Schindler; Killam Memorial Professor of Ecology at the University of Alberta talks to us about water scarcity and drought in the prairie provinces.

February 19, 2008 - Listen Now!
Resolving Interstate Water Wars
Joseph Zimmerman; Professor of Political Science at the University of Albany tells us how Interstate disputes get settled, namely the on-going dispute between Georgia and Tennessee regarding the Tennessee River, and he touches on the dispute regarding Wisconsin and the Great Lakes Compact.

February 18, 2008 - Listen Now!
The Next Water War
Georgia vs Tennessee is heating up to be the next water war. Justin Wilson, An attorney with Waller Lansden Dortch & Davis out of Nashville talks to us about Georgia unilaterally redefining the border between them, and how they could legitimately get access to the Tennessee River.

February 14, 2008 - Listen Now!
Nova Scotia Env Minister
Nova Scotia Minister of Environment and Labour; The Honourable Mark Parent talks to us about what is being done to safeguard water in the province, and what could be done better.

February 8, 2008 - Listen Now!
Model Water Act
Acting Chairman of the Canadian Water Issues Council, Ralph Pentland talks to us about the Model Water Act the group released on February 6.

February 5, 2008 - Listen Now!
Trouble in US Southwest
Mr Tim Barnett from the Scripps Institution talks to us about why Canadians should worry about the US Southwest, and why oceans are in really big trouble.

December 4, 2007 - Listen Now!
Building the Northern Port
LCdr Clive Orford talks to us about building the Arctic Deep Water Port in Nanisivik, and some of the possible uses once operational.

December 4, 2007 - Listen Now!
Ontario Environment Commissioner
Ontario Environment Commissioner Gord Miller talks to us about his annual report - Reconciling Our Priorities.

November 29, 2007 - Listen Now!
Sea Levels May Threaten Groundwater
Motomu Ibaraki, a Hydrologist at Ohio State University talks to us about a computer simulation he was working on that indicates groundwater in vulnerable areas may become more contaminated than previously thought.

November 10, 2007 - Listen Now!
Nanisivik- Fisheries and Ocean
Mike Hecimovich, Fisheries and Oceans, talks about the new deep sea port in Nanisivik.

November 10, 2007 - Listen Now!
NorthWest Passage Sailable in 2007
Jamal Shirley, Research and Design Policy Development, Nunavut Research Institute, Iqaluit, NU, says that scientists estimate that, for the first time in 2007, a standard ocean going vessel could have sailed through the North West passage without being obstructed by ice.

November 8, 2007 - Listen Now!
Clean Air Task Force
David Marshall, Senior Counsel, Clean Air Task Force talks to us about international shipping pollution and what can be done about it.

November 7, 2007 - Listen Now!
Shipping Pollution
James Corbett, P.E., Ph.D. Associate Professor, Marine Policy Program at the University of Delaware talks to us about how international shipping pollution kills 60,000 people a year.

October 31, 2007 - Listen Now!
Blue Covenant
Maude Barlow National Chairperson of the Council of Canadians on her new book Blue Covenant: The Global Water Crisis and the Coming Battle for the Right to Water, as well as North American water wars and the future of water under the NAFTA umbrella.

October 25, 2007 - Listen Now!
RBC Blue Water Project
Nelson Switzer, Senior Manager, Corporate and Environmental Affairs at RBC talks to us about their new $50 million program to support water conservation and clean water.

October 17, 2007 - Listen Now!
National Water Critic
Francis Scarpaleggia, Liberal Water Critic says leadership is what is needed to develop a coherent National Water Policy.

October 5, 2007 - Listen Now!
Climate Change effects on Upper Thames watershed
Dr. Slobodan Simonovic, Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Western Ontario talks to us about the effects of climate change on flooding and drought in the Upper Thames watershed.

October 1, 2007 - Listen Now!
Drought a result of diminishing Arctic Ice?
Jacob Sewall; Assistant Professor of Geosciences at Virginia Tech University on the correlation between the loss of ice in the North and drought in the American West.

August 22, 2007 - Listen Now!
Resource Management & Investment Panel
Hosted by Patricia Lovett-Reid, Senior VP with TD Waterhouse, and host of BNN's Money Talk with guests Gerry Galloway, President of the American Water Resources Association; Dennis Kamber, Director Water and Waste Business Practice for the United States at Arcadis; and Steve Hoffmann, President of WaterTech Capital and founder of the Palisades Water Index (ZWI)

July 10, 2007 - Listen Now!
Drought and the Prairies
Danny Blair, Professor of Climatology and Geography at the University of Winnipeg talks to us about drought and Manitoba's water management strategy.

June 20, 2007 - Listen Now!
Greenpeace to block nuclear expansion
Dave Martin, Energy & Climate Change coordinator for Greenpeace talks to us about tritium contamination from CANDU nuclear reactors.

May 22, 2007 - Listen Now!
Biology Vs Chemistry
Dr. Hans Peterson, executive director of the Saskatoon-based Safe Drinking Water Foundation talks to us about Integrated Biological and RO membrane treatment (IBROMT) which uses biology instead of chemistry to treat water.

May 3, 2007 - Listen Now!
Public/Private Wars
Co-author of Thirst, Alan Snitow talks to us about some of the battles that many small towns in the US and Canada are engaging in with private corporations for the control of their water.

April 30, 2007 - Listen Now!
The Northwest Passage
Michael Byers, Canada Research Chair in Global Politics and International Law talks to us about protecting the Northwest Passage and the impact of global warming on the Arctic.

April 27, 2007 - Listen Now!
Climate Change and Water
Jim Bruce of the Foundation for Climate and Atmospheric Science talks to Bob Brouse about the impact of climate change on our water.

April 23, 2007 - Listen Now!
Conference Board Warning
Bob Brouse talks to Gilles Rhéaume, VP Public Policy for the Conference Board of Canada about their recent report on water governance and management.

March 20, 2007 - Listen Now!
Future of Water - Panel
Patricia Lovett-Reid (TD Waterhouse, host of BNN's Money Talks) guest hosts a Panel on the future of water where she talks to Investment Advisors, CEO's, and Economists from different water related organizations to discuss the future of water.

Featuring Steve Hoffmann, President of WaterTech Capital; Oli Olafson, President of North American Aqua Environmental; Dennis Wichelns, Professor of Economics at Hanover College; Steve Kroll, VP GE Water and Process Technologies; and Neil Gordon, President of the Canadian NanoBusiness Alliance.

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