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Talk+Water takes a deep dive into the world of water with those making waves. Every month Todd H. Votteler, Ph.D. interviews special guests making unique contributions in the water profession.
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- 1 weeks ago42 min
#115, Scot McFarlane, Stories from the Trinity River
Send us Fan Mail In this conversation, Dr. Todd Votteler, Principal of Collaborative Water Resolution and Editor-in-Chief of Texas+Water and the Texas Water Journal, talks with Scot McFarlane, author and founder of the Oxbow History Company, about the Trinity River’s overlooked role in shaping Texas. Scot grew up along the banks of the Trinity River and has devoted his career to recovering the forgotten histories of American waterways. A historian with a PhD from Columbia University—where he ...
- Sep 1, 20261h 16m
#114, James Eklund, Navigating the Colorado River Crisis
Send us Fan Mail In this conversation, Dr. Todd Votteler, Principal of Collaborative Water Resolution and Editor-in-Chief of Texas+Water and the Texas Water Journal, talks with James Eklund, a water and natural resources law attorney and partner at Taft/ Sherman & Howard, about how the Colorado River’s shrinking water supply is forcing the American West to rethink how water is shared, conserved, and governed. James is one of the American West’s leading water lawyers, a fifth-generation Co...
- Aug 3, 202647 min
#113, Ivo Zution Gonçalves, Future of Irrigation in the U.S.
Send us Fan Mail In this conversation, Dr. Todd Votteler, Principal of Collaborative Water Resolution and Editor-in-Chief of Texas+Water and the Texas Water Journal, talks with Ivo Zution Gonçalves, a Research Assistant Professor for the Daugherty Water for Food Global Institute at the University of Nebraska, about the current status and future of irrigated agriculture in the United States. Ivo Zution Gonçalves is an agronomist engineer with a Ph.D. in Agricultural Engineering from the State ...
- Jun 27, 20261h 0m
#112, Ryan Smith, Rethinking Dam Operations
Send us Fan Mail In this conversation, Dr. Todd Votteler, Principal of Collaborative Water Resolution and Editor-in-Chief of Texas+Water and the Texas Water Journal, talks with Ryan Smith, Director of Water and Science for The Nature Conservancy in Texas, about the Sustainable Rivers Program and its work to improve river health through changes in dam operations. Ryan is a freshwater ecologist with more than 25 years of professional experience in freshwater conservation. He leads a team implem...
- Jun 9, 202628 min
#111, Brian Sheng, Creating Water Out of Thin Air
Send us Fan Mail In this conversation, Dr. Todd Votteler, Principal of Collaborative Water Resolution and Editor-in-Chief of Texas+Water and the Texas Water Journal, talks with Brian Sheng, CEO and a Co-Founder of Aquaria, about atmospheric water generation and its potential role in Texas’ water future. Aquaria is a corporation that builds air-water infrastructure to produce scalable water systems that create clean drinking water from the air. Brian headquartered Aquaria in Austin, Texas, in ...
- May 26, 202641 min
#110, Beth Lambert, Dam Removals & River Restoration in Massachusetts
Send us Fan Mail In this conversation, Dr. Todd Votteler, Principal of Collaborative Water Resolution and Editor-in-Chief of Texas+Water and the Texas Water Journal, discusses dam removals and river restoration with Beth Lambert, Director of the Massachusetts Division of Ecological Restoration. The Massachusetts Division of Ecological Restoration is part of the Massachusetts Department of Fish and Game. As Director, Beth oversees a 30-person agency whose mission is to restore and protec...
- May 4, 202656 min
#109, Josh Katz, Who Owns Produced Water?
Send us Fan Mail In this conversation, Dr. Todd Votteler, Principal of Collaborative Water Resolution and Editor-in-Chief of Texas+Water and the Texas Water Journal, talks with Josh Katz, attorney with Bickerstaff Heath, about a recent Texas Supreme Court decision on produced water ownership and its implications for water rights and policy. Josh practices in the areas of municipal law, environmental law, administrative law, water law, electric utility regulation, and civil litigation. He repr...
- Apr 17, 202637 min
#108, Dr. Margaret Cook, Data Center Water Use in Texas
Send us Fan Mail In this conversation, Dr. Todd Votteler, Principal of Collaborative Water Resolution and Editor-in-Chief of Texas+Water and the Texas Water Journal, talks with Dr. Margaret Cook, Vice President of Water & Community Resilience at the Houston Advanced Research Center (HARC), about water use of data centers in Texas. Margaret leads a team of experts who build collaborative initiatives to enhance community resilience, sustainable development, and the availability and affordab...
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