DW Documentaries: Thirst Series

These sleeper videos have accumulated nearly 24 million views across the 3 parts and the 3 languages (English, Spanish, Arabic) on YouTube. Originally filmed for the German public television network ARD by Daniel and Walter Harrich in 2021 of diwafilm, we took an epic trip to all the hotspots along the Colorado River, from Lake Powell to Lake Mead, Las Vegas, Phoenix, the Imperial Irrigation District, and ending at the Salton Sea.

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Author:Jay Famiglietti

Jay Famiglietti is a hydrologist, a Global Futures Professor at Arizona State University, and a science communicator. He is Executive Director Emeritus of the Global Institute for Water Security at the University of Saskatchewan, where he held the Canada 150 Research Chair in Hydrology and Remote Sensing. He was founding Chief Scientist of the Silicon Valley tech startup, Waterplan, which he continues to advise. Before moving to Saskatchewan, he served as the Senior Water Scientist at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology. Famiglietti and his research team use satellites and develop computer models to track changing freshwater availability and groundwater depletion around the world. He is an active speaker, a frequent advisor to national and international government officials on water issues, and avid writer for the general public.

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