Jay Famiglietti

Global water security is increasingly threatened. Accounting for water use and risk ought to have the same urgency with which we address carbon. Read the full post on Circle of Blue.

The award-winning, top freshwater science podcast in North America, check out Season 3 and our focus on climate adaptation and solutions. A co-production of The Walrus Labs and the Global Institute for Water Security. Available wherever you get your podcasts and at the What About Water website.

Xander Huggins’ paper in Nature Communications explores which river basins are most likely to experience social and ecological impacts from freshwater stress and storage loss, and provides a set of the 168 most-vulnerable basins for global prioritization. Download the paper here.

Most of the world’s unfrozen freshwater is invisible to humanity. Ninety-six percent of it is stored beneath the land surface as groundwater in soil and rock layers called aquifers. However, groundwater’s unobtrusive nature belies its critical importance to global water and food security while simultaneously subjecting it to massive overexploitation. Groundwater is the primary water […]

The ecological crises threatening water supplies from the lakes of Bangalore to Lake Chad. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3ct29bz

A 3-hour series from WGBH Boston that premiered on PBS on Earth Day. April 22, 2020. The film dramatically reveals how water underpins every aspect of our existence. Segments from across the planet, intimate documentary and natural history cinematography combine to uncover dramatic discoveries and compelling characters and deliver important stories about this mysterious molecule.  […]

Bill speaks with UC Irvine professor and NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Senior Water Scientist Jay Famiglietti about the severe drought affecting the state of California. March 27, 2015 On Overtime Overseas and taking the SoCal Public Radio drought quiz at the after party with actor Zachary Quinto Plus a web exclusive NewRule: The Evaporation Proclamation […]

Lesley Stahl reports on the depletion of crucial groundwater across the globe — with a focus on California — and our work with NASA GRACE mission that is revealing just how serious the situation is. Stream the episode here. Originally broadcast November 16, 2014, it was re-run on May 31, 2015 and updated on February […]

The 2021 documentary DAY ZERO describes the urgent situation of water scarcity in many parts of the world, including the water crisis in Cape Town, South Africa in 2018, the huge negative impact of deforestation of the Amazon rainforest in Brazil on global water supplies, and the alarming rate of water depletion caused by extensive […]