WAMC: 51% Show # 995 (2008-08-07)

51 % The Women's Perspective

51% Show # 995

(2008-08-07)

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ALBANY, NY (WAMC) - BILLBOARD - Susan Barnett(:45) (Music Out)

According to an international group called Water Aid...one sixth of the world's population doesn't have access to safe, clean drinking water. And investors are snapping up water rights, preparing for what's expected to be the next hot commodity. Susan Lien Longville is director of the Water Resources Institute at California State University San Bernardino.

6:12 Longville -Barnett

Susan Lien Longville is director of the Water Resources Institute at Cal State San Bernardino.

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Coming up on 51%... we turn on our taps and water flows. We'll take you to place where the search for water is the central focus of each day.

If you missed part of our show, you can listen to 51% anytime. Just download our podcast at wamc.org or call 1-800-323-9262 to order a CD - you'll need to know the program number. This week's show is #995.

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The Western world takes drinking water for granted...so much so that we waste it. California, which is already experiencing water problems, has approved future stringent new regulations that will require any new buildings on a certain amount of land to not only meet all other building requirements...but present a water use plan that meets with the new standards. Developments in the desert Southwest face constant worries whenever droughts dry up already scare water supplies. But in many parts of the third world, concern has long ago given way to resignation...and determination. Reporter Jessica Partnow filed this story from Ethiopia for the World Vision Report's Day in the Life

5:21 Partnow Water Walkers PRX

Today as part of the National Science Foundations The Sounds of Progress project, producer Mary Darcy and narrator Kate Mulgrew profile Edith Quimby. Her career in science was guided by a family move...and led to research that helped develop the fledgling field of nuclear medicine.

2:00 NSF #4 Edith Quimby

If you'd like to find out more or hear more in this series, visit womeninscience.org.

And finally today, it's the Artspace. Today's artist is singer/songwriter Joanne Ramsay. Joanne is a self-taught musician from Scotland. She now divides her time between London and LA and she has a debut album called Life Tastes Sweeter.

4:00 Joanne Ramsay

Joanne Ramsay's debut album, Life Tastes Sweeter is available at CDBaby.
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