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Water is essential to life – but also agriculture, industry, and energy. But ever rising consumption and climate change have many worried there won’t be enough to go around. Meanwhile, sea-level rise and extreme weather threaten some areas with disaster. How can we avoid conflict and build peace? How can we ensure everyone has what they need to survive and thrive as we march toward a global population of more than 9 billion? In this special series, produced with support from USAID, we talk to experts from around the world to hear how they are thinking about and addressing 21st century water challenges.

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  • Sam Huston on Stabilizing Water Utilities in Fragile Environments

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    Friday Podcasts  //  Water Stories (Podcast Series)  //  February 22, 2019  //  By Amanda King

    EX17-006-Sam-Huston-650“One of the interesting things about dealing with water and sanitation issues is that in many ways it’s a crosscutting issue,” said Sam Huston, Chief of Party at Tetra Tech’s USAID-supported Water Supply, Sanitation, and Hygiene Financing (WASH-FIN) Project. Practitioners often must deal with multiple challenges that are usually much broader than their specific focus, he noted during an interview for this week’s Water Stories podcast.

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  • Gidon Bromberg on Water and Environmental Peacebuilding

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    Friday Podcasts  //  Water Stories (Podcast Series)  //  February 1, 2019  //  By Evan Barnard

    640x640_10122939“The Jordan River has been the lifeblood of the Levant,” says Gidon Bromberg, the Israeli co-director of EcoPeace Middle East, in this week’s Water Stories podcast. The river’s importance offers a unique platform for multi-level conflict resolution and environmental conservation efforts in a region wracked by conflict.

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  • Ken Conca on Transboundary Water Basin Management

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    Friday Podcasts  //  Water Stories (Podcast Series)  //  January 18, 2019  //  By Linsey Edmunds & Truett Sparkman

    “When we start talking about water in the context of security, we’re immediately drawn to a conversation about conflict. And that’s often framed in terms of scarcity of water and a real zero-sum game around water, where scarcity begets grievances, which beget instability and conflict,” says Ken Conca, Professor at American University’s School of International Service, in this week’s Water Stories podcast. Of the world’s 276 transboundary water basins, fewer than half are governed by an agreement or accord that allocates use of the shared water between countries—and less than a quarter of these accords include all the riparian states in a basin.

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  • Doris Kaberia on Public-Private Partnerships and Holistic Approaches to Water Management in Kenya

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    Friday Podcasts  //  Water Stories (Podcast Series)  //  January 11, 2019  //  By Truett Sparkman

    Doris Kaberia 235“You cannot separate water and health,” says Doris Kaberia in this week’s Water Stories podcast. “People need safe drinking water for them to be healthy.” Kaberia works with Millennium Water Alliance, a coalition of international NGOs working on water sanitation and hygiene around the world, where she manages a Kenyan water program.

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  • Sandra Ruckstuhl on Capturing Practical Lessons on Water, Conflict, and Cooperation

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    Friday Podcasts  //  Water Stories (Podcast Series)  //  December 14, 2018  //  By Kathryn Gardner & Truett Sparkman

    Sandra Ruckstuhl 235We realized “there was a need for a toolkit on water,” says Sandra Ruckstuhl in this week’s Water Stories podcast, “with a focus of conflict and conflict mitigation, but also peacebuilding.” Ruckstuhl, a consultant for the World Bank who has researched water programs in Yemen and the Middle East, helped the Wilson Center produce USAID’s Water and Conflict toolkit, which documents examples of successful development interventions focused on water and peacebuilding.

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  • Aaron Wolf on Transboundary Water Conflict and Cooperation

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    Friday Podcasts  //  Water Stories (Podcast Series)  //  November 30, 2018  //  By Evan Barnard & Sharif Wahab

    Aaron Wolf 235“Countries—even countries that don’t like each other much—have, and continue to have, conversations over water resources, even when they won’t about other issues,” says Aaron Wolf, Director of Water Conflict Management and Transformation at Oregon State University, in this week’s Water Stories podcast.

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