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Drip irrigation is a revolutionary technology that allows farmers to increase their yield while using less environmentally dangerous fertilizer – and saving lots of water in the process. How much water? As much as 60% over other techniques. With the adoption of drip irrigation increasing around the world, farmers are able to preserve diminishing supplies […]

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Among Nebraska’s best farm exports may be one of the country’s most important agriculture officials, California’s Secretary of Food and Agriculture Karen Ross. Raised on a Nebraska farm, Ross knows her way around fields and barns, but has spent much of her adult life focused on farm policy, including stints working for a US Senator and […]

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In the latest episode of the Let There Be Water Podcast, Seth Siegel interviews Karen Ross, California’s Secretary of Food and Agriculture. With California’s severe drought this year, environmentalists, city dwellers and farmers have been at odds over water resources. Learn about the interplay of California’s water crisis and its agricultural industry and what the […]

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The frugal couple bumped into young Warren Buffett. Now they’ve left millions to Israeli water research. By Seth M. Siegel Published on WSJ.com How does one overcome almost unimaginable horror and trauma? For Holocaust survivors Howard and Lottie Marcus, the healing came, in part, from the hope that they could help to provide refuge for other Jews who might […]

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Felicia Marcus has a knack for accepting jobs just before crises occur. Just before the California drought hit, Marcus agreed to serve as Chair of the California Water Resources Control Board. A philosophical person in a potentially bureaucratic position, Marcus has a lot of ideas about water governance and management. She is a believer in […]

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The four-year severe drought in California has captured headlines in the U.S. and internationally. What can be done to alleviate it and how does California’s water future look? In this episode of the Let There Be Water Podcast, I interview Felicia Marcus, the Chair of the California State Water Resources Control Board, often nicknamed “California’s […]

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By Seth M. Siegel In recent years, commercial and population centers in the U.S. have experienced record and sustained droughts. Such water scarcity imperils the health of Americans and the economic and environmental security of our country. California, with its unprecedented water restrictions and raging wildfires, is the best-known example, but far from the only […]

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The world’s water crisis is real—but solutions are at hand. We need look no further than Israel to see the water saving technologies of the future already in use. While the majority of Israel’s water is manufactured from non-potable, and man-made sources, virtually all US water is sourced from Natural Water. This includes groundwater, pulled from […]

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I recently had the pleasure of interviewing Philip Winter on the Let There Be Water Podcast. Philip is the co-founder and CEO of Nebia, a San Francisco start-up that believes we can save lots of water by changing our showers, but without giving up on the pleasure or length of the experience. Nebia’s revolutionary showerhead […]

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Seth M. Siegel interviews Dan Haseltine, a member of Grammy Award-winning band Jars of Clay and co-founder of BLOOD:WATER, a charity devoted to ending the dual crises of water and HIV/AIDS in Africa. This is a featured interview in honor of World Water Day today. Participate in World Water Day by signing up for a livecast with Seth M. […]

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