Water Would Be Nice

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🗓️ 4 December 2018

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

What happens when the Rio Grande dries up? The river is often overshadowed, at least in the US, by the Colorado River. But the Rio Grande creates the border between US and Mexico, and the water that flows through it is at the center of a looming geopolitical crisis. So what happens when towns, farms and cities on both sides of the border start to run out of water? Guests: Naveena Sadasivam: staff writer at the Texas Observer covering the environment, energy and climate and co-author on the series Shallow Waters Zoë Schlanger: staff writer at Quartz covering the environment, and co-author on the series Shallow Waters Flavio Lehner: Climate scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research J. Alfredo Rodríguez-Pineda: Water program coordinator at the WWF Sponsors: Bombas (use code FLASH at checkout) Papers mentioned in the ad: Deranged Socks, Sock Matching exercise, Sock sorting → → → Links to sources and further reading available here ← ← ← Flash Forward is produced by me, Rose Eveleth. The intro music is by Asura and the outtro music is by Hussalonia. The episode art is by Matt Lubchansky. Get in touch: Twitter // Facebook // Reddit // info@flashforwardpod.com Support the show: Patreon // Donorbox Subscribe: iTunes // Soundcloud Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and I'm your host.
0:03.0	Flash Forward is a show.
0:04.0	A.
0:07.0	Hello and welcome to Flash Forward.
0:11.0	I'm Rose and I'm your host. Flash forward is a show about the future. Every
0:15.8	episode we take on a specific possible or not so possible future scenario. We
0:21.8	always start with a little field trip to the future to
0:24.7	check out what's going on and then we teleport back to today to talk to
0:29.6	experts about how that world that we just heard might really go down.
0:34.4	Got it? Great. This episode we many parts of the U.S. the drought in the nation's midsection
0:54.9	is entering its third year and more hotter and drier weather is expected this spring.
1:00.6	Now one of the hardest hit states is expected to be Texas where rice farmers who
1:05.3	need a lot of water for their crops are feeling high and dry.
1:08.8	Texas in a water emergency and with its economy now threatened taking desperate measures.
1:16.3	Texas officials today had bad news for farmers who badly need water.
1:21.1	Rice has been grown here since the 1800s, but few years have been as dry as the last tube.
1:27.0	We've been in business since 1947.
1:30.0	I've never seen anything like this.
1:32.0	I've never seen a point where we didn't have water enough to plant rice.
1:36.5	Rainfall in Texas is more than 16 inches below normal.
1:40.5	Rice production statewide has dropped 37%.
1:44.0	We're back with a story of desperate days in Texas where the drought has become so critical
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