Water Resources Podcast

Layton Schur discusses his direct marketing approach of 24 different vegetables and beef production to reduce groundwater use in the depleting High Plains Aquifer. Transcript and data available here: https://wrp.beg.utexas.edu/episode/adapting-to-groundwater-shortages-in-the-texas-high-plains-by-focusing-on-direct-to-market-agricultural-production

David Maidment talks about flooding challenges in Texas and the U.S. and approaches to reduce flood hazards.

Matías Taucare discusses various challenges, including megadrought since 2010 and groundwater over exploitation in Chile since 1990.

Katie Smye talks about advanced modeling and satellite-based monitoring for tracking produced water issues in the Permian Basin.

Shane Walker discusses advances in treating produced water for beneficial uses, including surface discharge and land application.

Wolfgang Kinzelbach is a Professor Emeritus of Hydromechanics at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich (Switzerland). His research focused on many aspects of hydrogeology, including modeling and monitoring of water quantity and quality. This podcast focuses on his work in China, including the North China Plain and the Tarim Basin.

Huilin Gao discusses advances in reservoir monitoring using models and new remote sensing, providing daily evaporation rates for Texas, western U.S., and global scales.

Augusto Getirana discusses global flooding in 2025, the new SWOT satellite, advances in NASA modeling and flood work in Brazil.

Nathalie Voisin discusses water-electricity interconnection, highlighting hydropower, hydropower droughts, grid reliability, and future of water-energy management.

Dennis Lettenmaier discusses trends in snow, flooding, and drought in the Western U.S. with a focus on the Colorado River Basin.

Di Long discusses his research on the water resources in the Tibetan Plateau Asian Water Tower, reservoirs in the Mekong Basin, and water storage recovery in the North China Plain.

Manoo Shirzaei discusses land subsidence in many regions globally, including Iran, California, Arizona, and U.S. Coast based on satellite data.

Alex Sun discusses the evolution of AI/ML over the past decades and resources for hydrology.

Sergii Skakun discusses historical, current, and projected future wheat production in the Ukraine and Russia using satellite date and modelling.

Jürgen Kusche discusses advances in GRACE satellites, applications for flood monitoring, and data assimilation with global hydrology models.

Karen Guz discusses water conservation and increasing supplies to meet the rising water needs for population growth and droughts in San Antonio.

John Nielsen-Gammon discusses climate extremes, including the July 4th flooding and 2011 drought, with insights into communicating risk.

Hatim Sharif discusses recent central Texas flooding in Kerr County and San Antonio and flood fatalities.

Nima Shokri discusses the importance of global soil health and its impacts on water resources, food security and sustainable development.

Kevin Winter discusses nature-based approaches to treating informal settlement discharge for use in agriculture and other sectors.

Randy Hanson discusses climate extremes in the Rio Conchos and the importance of conjunctively managing surface water and groundwater.

Landon Marston discusses rising water intensity of large data centers, resulting in a notable impact on local water demand.

Jamon Van Den Hoek discusses mapping real-time conflict using satellites and ground-truthing with journalists.

Kaveh Madani uses a bank analogy to describe water resources management with surface water as checking and groundwater as savings accounts and overexploitation leading to bankruptcy.

Yadu Pokhrel describes the application of global hydrologic modeling with machine learning to understand water resources dynamics.