University of Houston energy fellow Ed Hirs and Texas Water Resources Institute associate director Wendy Jepson join us to explain why one of the toughest weeks in Texas history was likely preventable – and what the state needs to do to make sure an energy disaster doesn’t strike again.
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NAACP Legal Defense Fund attorney Sparky Abraham joins guest host John McCaa to talk about how lack of water access contributes to the nation’s economic divide.
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Naveena Sadasivam joins us to talk about how drought and heat waves are threatening the futures of the 6 million people who live in the Rio Grande Valley.
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Andrew Sansom joins us to talk about how our lakes are managed, the role they play in supplying water to the state, and why the majority of our large lakes are manmade.
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This hour, we’ll learn how innovative thinkers are actually extending the flows of rivers, harvesting wastewater and growing fruit in the desert with Judith D. Schwartz, author of “Water in Plain Sight: Hope for a Thirsty World” (St. Martin’s Press).
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This hour, we’ll talk about how water is managed in Texas with Sharlene Leurig, director of the Texas Environmental Flows Initiative.
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We’ll talk this hour about how cultures throughout history have been driven by their access to water with Dr. Fekri Hassan, an Egyptian archaeologist in town to speak this week at SMU.
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