Drinking Water Videos

  1. People Drink Sewage Water For The First Time 3/3/2016

    Rather drink sewage water than LA tap water any day.

  2. The Big Empty: Rural America's Drinking Water Crisis 6/20/2017

    O’Brien, Texas is just one of thousands of small communities in the United States that struggle to find the resources to ensure that the water coming out of the tap is safe to drink. The recent budget proposal by the Trump administration will only make matters worse. Watch this documentary short produced by Tom Rosenberg and Earth Institute fellow Madison Condon details one shrinking town’s drinking water crisis.

  3. We Are All Vulnerable To The Effects Of Water Pollution 9/17/2018

    Dr. Jamie Dewitt explains her research in Phamacology and Toxicology and why water pollution might pose a problem no matter where you are.

  4. Ensuring Freshwater Sustainability: Mapping Groundwater From The Air 6/5/2017

    Stanford Earth’s Rosemary Knight recently spearheaded a project to map underground freshwater resources and forecast the intrusion of saltwater into aquifers beneath the California coastal town of Marina.

  5. How One Glass Of Water Changed My Life 3/6/2018

    How much water does it take to make a hamburger? How about to manufacture a car? Having experienced growing up with limited resources living in a refugee camp in India, Anil Ahuja is leading a movement to design sustainable cities and systems that protect the earth and the people who live on it.

  6. Expanded Version-Jason 3-Continuing Decades Of Ocean Surface Measurements 6/22/2015

    Did you know satellites can measure Earth’s oceans from space? The Jason-3 satellite, set to launch in July 2015, will collect critical sea surface height data, adding to a satellite data record going back to 1992.

  7. Drought Forum Webinar: The Growing Demand For Re-Used And Brackish Water 5/7/2015

    The Western Governors' Drought Forum webinar “Once Marginal, Now Crucial: The Growing Demand for Re-used, Produced, and Brackish Water” explores the technological and regulatory obstacles to utilizing re-used, produced, and brackish water.

  8. Aqua Wants You To Know The 411 On Lead Exposure 5/11/2017

    Aqua wants you to know the 411 on lead exposure

  9. National Alliance For Water Innovation: Reimagining Desalination 6/21/2019

    Water and energy are inextricably linked, yet in our 20th-century water systems we use freshwater once then throw it away. With innovations designed to enhance desalination technologies, agricultural runoff, produced water from industry, and inland brackish groundwater that are now seen as untreatable could all be sources of clean, safe, and affordable water.

  10. Kate Orff: Reviving New York's Rivers -- With Oysters! 12/7/2018

    Architect Kate Orff sees the oyster as an agent of urban change. Bundled into beds and sunk into city rivers, oysters slurp up pollution and make legendarily dirty waters clean — thus driving even more innovation in "oyster-tecture." Orff shares her vision for an urban landscape that links nature and humanity for mutual benefit.