What’s Up With Water condenses the need-to-know news on the world’s water into a snapshot for the start of the workweek.

There is so much going on that’s related to water, but often it’s hidden behind the very things that it influences – agriculture, energy or health. This podcast is a ‘heads-up’ on water stories at the start of the week, so that you can track the developments and trends in the days ahead. Or simply be aware of what’s going on, and find out more about it through Circle of Blue’s in-depth and on-site coverage of water news, issues and analysis.

This week’s edition of What’s Up With Water includes coverage on:

  • Water-related protests in Iran
  • Poor water quality in Europe
  • Algae blooms in U.S. waterways
  • “Absolute drought” in Ireland

Archives

July 2, 2018 edition of What’s Up With Water includes coverage on:

  • Water-related protests in Iran
  • Poor water quality in Europe
  • Algae blooms in U.S. waterways
  • “Absolute drought” in Ireland

 

June 25, 2018 edition of What’s Up With Water includes coverage on:

  • A newly-released study on PFAS contamination in the U.S.
  • The UN’s latest evaluation of its Sustainable Development Goals
  • Severe monsoon rains in South Asia
  • India’s worsening water crisis

June 18, 2018 edition of What’s Up With Water includes coverage on:

  • The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam
  • Extreme heat and drought in Pakistan
  • A data-sharing dispute between India and China
  • Lead levels in Michigan drinking water

 

June 11, 2018 edition of What’s Up With Water includes coverage on:

  • Turkey begins filling a reservoir causing water levels in parts of the Tigris River to drop significantly
  • The price of piped water in Egypt spikes
  • Cyclones across the globe are moving slower than they did in the late 1940s and 1950s

June 4, 2018 edition of What’s Up With Water:

May 28, 2018 edition of What’s Up With Water includes coverage on:

  • The closure of a controversial copper smelter in Tamil Nadu, India
  • England faces water shortages by 2050
  • Melting glaciers cause disrupt water supplies in Kashmir
  • Oil spills in Nigeria’s Ogoni region have left 90 percent of the groundwater unfit for human consumption

May 21, 2018 edition of What’s Up With Water includes coverage on:

  • Global freshwater trends
  • The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam
  • Turkey’s contentious Kanal Istanbul  
  • Toxic algal blooms across the United States

 

May 14, 2018 edition of What’s Up With Water includes coverage on:

    • Water-related terrorism
    • The Murray-Darling Basin Plan
    • Cholera in Yemen
    • Colorado River water cutbacks

 

May 7, 2018, edition of What’s Up With Water includes coverage on:

  • Flash floods in Somalia  
  • Rising dam levels in Cape Town
  • Water stress in Los Angeles, California 
  • The impact of deforestation on water supply in Melbourne, Australia