Engineers of the New Millennium: The Global Water Challenge

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Water is such a basic human need that it takes real ingenuity to find new ways to control, retrieve, and share this critical resource. We meet some of the wizards of water—the engineers who are helping communities handle acute water challenges and plan for the future. Click on the images below to listen to the individual segments, which are now airing on public radio stations across the United States, and check this page frequently to see if and when a show will air on a public radio station in your area. After listening, join the discussion about the Global Water Challenge.

TRANSCRIPTS:
How Atlanta Fought Its Drought

Life and Death on the Limpopo River

Mopping Up the Purest Water

Peru's Glacial Meltdown

A High-Tech Take on Toilets

Sensors to Monitor Stream Health

Jordan's Ancient Water Problem

Tucson Spins Sewage Into Gold

Nevada's Cloud Wranglers

When Water Systems Crumble

  

TO PROBE FURTHER:
"Satellites Peer Into India's Shrinking Aquifers"

"Jordan's Radioactive Water Problem"

"Jordan's Red Sea Desalination Plan"

"New Device Lets Plants Talk"

"How Much Water Does It Take To Make Electricity?"

"Climatologists and River Agency Butt Heads About Future of Southwest's Hydroelectric Power"

"New Water Technology Headed for Parched Places"

"Water Ship Up: Firm Gets $250 Million to Make Oceangoing Desalination Vessels"

"Tsunami Alert System Starts Up In Indonesia"

"Thirst For Power"

UPCOMING BROADCASTS

Tuesday April 20, 2010  6:00 PM
  • Richmond/Lexington, KY    WEKU - 88.9 FM
  • Hazard,  KY  WEKH - 90.9 FM
  • Corbin,   KY  WEKF - 88.5 FM
Friday, April 23, 2010  1:00 PM
  • WNED- 970 AM Buffalo, NY
Sunday, April 25, 2010  7:00 PM
  • WFDD - 88.5 FM  Winston Salem, NC



PREVIOUS BROADCASTS

WABE 90.1 FM  Atlanta, GA

  • Sunday April 18, 2010  8:00 PM

WAMU 88.5 FM  Washington D.C.

  • Sunday January 31, 2010 6:00 PM
  • Sunday February 7, 2010 6:00 AM

Sunday, January 3, 2010 6 pm

  • WCVE  - 88.9 FM      Richmond, VA
  • WCNV -  89.1 FM      Heathsville, VA
  • WMVE -  90.1 FM     Chase City, VA

 December 28, 2009   8:00 PM EST

  • WGUC –  90.9 FM  Fort Myers Florida

Friday October 23, 2009 1:00 PM on Montana Public Radio:

  • Missoula MT KUFM - 89.1 FM
  • Butte MT KAPC - 91.3 FM
  • Great Falls MT KGPR - 89.9 FM
  • Hamilton MT KUFN - 91.9FM
  • Helena MT KUHM- 91.7 FM
  • Kalispell MT KUKL - 89.9 FM
  • Bozeman MT KBMC - 102. 1 FM

 

“Engineers of the New Millennium: The Global Water Challenge” is a coproduction of IEEE Spectrum magazine and the Directorate for Engineering of the National Science Foundation. The Directorate supports people whose discoveries and inventions make our lives more productive, sustainable, and enjoyable.

Photos: Kedar Dhane, Lori Frederic, Harry Goldstein, Arlen Huggins, Antonio Klaus, Benjamin Morales, David Rodriguez, Ryan Sinclair, Anne Steinemann, Sandra Upson, AP Photo, Cobb County Water System, Georgia Institute of Technology, Getty Images, iStockphoto, NASA, National Science Foundation, Randolph Park Water Reclamation Facility, Reuters