Please Explain: How to Save the World--The Global Water Supply

vor 14 Jahren

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Please Explain (The Leonard Lopate Show)

In Please Explain, we set aside time every Friday afternoon to get to the bottom of one complex issue. We’ll back up and review the basic facts and principles of complicated issues across a broad range of topics — history, politics, science, you name i...

Kunst , Gesellschaft , Politiknachrichten

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vor 14 Jahren

We're kicking off a series of Please Explains on how to save the world--ways to approach complex global problems such as climate chande, food supply, garbage disposal, population control, and violence. Today's topic is how to protect the world's water supply. Upmanu Lall,?Director of the Columbia Water Center, and Sandra Postel, founder of the Global Water Policy Project and National Geographic Freshwater Fellow join us to discuss the state of fresh water around the globe.