Hey science fans one thing we don't get to talk about enough on this show is environmental

Concerns ecology resources that sort of thing I wish we we had more more on this topic on the show. Fortunately I found a new

podcast that I believe you guys will enjoy called Waterline. Waterline podcast is everything related to water how to make sustainable

irrigation can water bring peace how do you keep water clean and safe and how much money does our current water system

cost in the US what changes can we make and how we use water? I just listened to a fantastic episode called

Water in Peace, Hydropolitics. It was all about the many different conflicts over different regions of water.

We've drawn all of these arbitrary lines for our kind of political regions and one thing that we didn't really factor in when doing that was water sources.

So now there's all of these uncomfortable, to say the least, conflicts where all of these areas overlap over water sources.

Fantastic episode.

The Waterline Podcast is an initiative of Israel New Tech,

a part of the Israeli Ministry of Economy and Industry.

So check it out for everything you need to know about the economics, political, social,

behavioral, technological, and environmental aspects of water

search for waterline podcast on iTunes or in your Android

podcast app. Welcome everybody to the first here we are a podcast of 2017.

Welcome to 2017. I hope your 2016 was good I had a I had a fantastic one career wise for me and

and just in in general for the most part some ups and downs as usual.

My foot's been better, you probably won't have to hear about my foot

as much in the last month or two, it's gotten much better.

And, um... much better.

And also I have, as promised, I actually wanted to get this episode out a couple days ago, but I was I was waiting to confirm a couple

things I promised some exciting new projects and you got them I had already booked in Minneapolis at Sissipus Brewery.

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