Episode 159 - Water Crisis with Jay Famiglietti

Probably Science

Andy Wood, Matt Kirshen

Jessecase, Comedy, News, Mattkirshen, Standup, Andywood, Science & Medicine, Science, Brookswheelan

4.8 • 707 Ratings

🗓️ 7 April 2015

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

Professor of earth system science at UC Irvine and senior water scientist at NASA/JPL Jay Famiglietti (@JayFamiglietti) recently wrote an LA Times op-ed on the dire state of California's water supplies, catalyzing the nation and helping contribute to recent historic mandatory water restrictions from Governor Jerry Brown. Jay joins Matt, Jesse and Andy in an overly watered backyard to talk about California's drought, Jay's New York Times Quotation of the Day and his recent Real Time with Bill Maher appearance, using satellites to track water systems, forced acronyms in space programs, using surface water and reservoirs vs. dipping into groundwater reserves, agricultural vs. residential water consumption, why local rainfall doesn't help us get out of our water deficit, our antiquated water rights policies, peeing in the shower and the fact that Californians are going to have to get over their love of green grass from now on.

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0:00.0	Probably Science
0:02.0	Welcome to Probably Science.
0:10.8	I'm Andy Wood.
0:13.8	Join by Matt Kirshan.
0:15.1	Hey, Andy.
0:16.0	And Jesse Case.
0:17.0	Hey, guys.
0:17.8	And why are we all sat in a hot tub together?
0:20.5	You know, why have we? Well, we took a break from watering our driveway just now and
0:24.9	flushing individual mosquitoes down the toilet.
0:26.9	Yeah.
0:27.0	To talk about a very important issue.
0:28.6	This is our most topically relevant episode ever, I would say.
0:31.9	Yeah, topical in the sense that it's now becoming news, but not really topical in the
0:35.8	sense that it's been an issue for decades.
0:38.6	But the fact that our guest has today's New York Times quotation of the day.
0:42.9	We are...
0:43.3	This is very topical.
0:43.9	This is very topical.
0:45.0	We are going to discuss my lack of sex lately, guys, talking about the drought.
0:50.7	They told me we were going to do a drought episode.
0:52.6	I said it's a little personal to me But I'll talk about it
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