There's Something in the Water

Now & Then

Vox Media Podcast Network

History, Society & Culture, News Commentary, News

4.9 • 3.7K Ratings

🗓️ 14 June 2023

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

What can past struggles over American water access tell us about national power and politics? Heather and Joanne place state and federal government responses to the Southwest’s current megadrought in the tangled history of water management, from Aaron Burr’s duplicitous scheme to give New York clean water, to William Mulholland’s Los Angeles “water wars,” to the proliferation of New Deal dams. What were Heather and Joanne’s different experiences of water in the 1970s? Join CAFE Insider to listen to “Backstage,” where Heather and Joanne chat each week about the anecdotes and ideas that formed the episode. Head to: cafe.com/history For references & supplemental materials, head to: cafe.com/now-and-then/theres-something-in-the-water/ Now & Then is presented by CAFE and the Vox Media Podcast Network. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Support for the show comes from Into the Mix, a Ben and Jerry's podcast about joy and justice produced with Fox Creative.
0:07.0	Thousands of Afghans were forced to flee their homes and fear for their lives,
0:11.0	and the Taliban took control of Afghanistan in 2021.
0:14.0	The UK government pledged to take in 20,000 of them as refugees,
0:18.0	but in the first year, only 22 Afghans have been approved for asylum in the UK.
0:23.0	So what happened?
0:25.0	And what does this mean for the tens of thousands of people left behind?
0:28.0	Hear that story on the latest episode of Into the Mix.
0:32.0	Subscribe now.
0:58.0	From Cafe and the Vox Media Podcast Network, this is now and then.
1:07.0	I'm Heather Cox Richardson, and I'm Joanne Freeman.
1:13.0	This week we're going to talk about a topic that might seem related to,
1:18.0	but not precisely, the topic we should be talking about.
1:22.0	You would think that we would be addressing the air and smoke and fire
1:29.0	because of the ways in which particularly us on the East Coast and the Northeast
1:34.0	were bombarded with the weirdness of the air, and it filled the press,
1:39.0	and everyone was talking about it.
1:42.0	But what we want to talk about today is related, and I think as you'll see,
1:46.0	really encompasses a lot about where we are as a nation and where we've been.
1:51.0	And that is the question of water.
1:55.0	Now off the cuff, I think that sounds very basic today.
2:00.0	Heather and I will talk about water.
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