736 - World Water Day: How Water Can Be a Powerful Force to Bring People Together
Public Health On Call
The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
4.6 • 644 Ratings
🗓️ 22 March 2024
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
More than 2 billion people lack access to safe drinking water, and more than 3 billion are living without safe sanitation systems. For World Water Day, Ken Conca, a professor of international relations at the School of International Service at American University, joins the podcast to talk with Dr. Josh Sharfstein about the state of the world's water. They discuss how some of the biggest challenges to water access and quality are political and legal, rather than technical, in nature. They also discuss how water, which knows no jurisdictions, can bring people and nations together. Learn more: https://www.un.org/en/observances/water-day
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Public Health On Call, a podcast from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, |
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| 0:29.6 | This is Lindsay Smith Rogers. |
| 0:32.6 | It's March 22nd, 2024, World Water Day. |
| 0:43.8 | Ken Conca is a professor of international relations at the School of International Service at American University. |
| 0:50.0 | He's also an expert on conflict and cooperation related to water around the world. |
| 0:54.0 | He discusses the state of the world's water with Dr. Josh Sharfstein. |
| 0:55.3 | Let's listen. |
| 1:03.3 | Professor Ken Kanka, it is great to have you on public health on call here to talk about World Water Day. |
| 1:04.0 | How are you? |
| 1:04.9 | I'm doing well. |
| 1:05.7 | Thanks for having me. |
| 1:06.5 | It's a pleasure to be here. |
| 1:07.4 | Okay. |
| 1:09.5 | Are you adequately hydrated for this conversation? |
| 1:10.4 | I believe so. |
| 1:30.4 | Thanks. All right. Well, I want to start maybe by asking you to introduce yourself to the audience, you work a lot on water. Yeah, so I'm a professor in the School of International Service at American University, and most of my work does, in fact, touch upon water, particularly the international and transboundary dimensions of water. |
| 1:37.8 | You know, the thing that first got me interested in water as someone who studies international relations is that it has no respect for national borders. |
| 1:38.9 | It flows. |
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