165: Hydraulic New York
From: World Ocean Radio
Series: World Ocean Radio: The Sea Connects All Things
Length: 06:19
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The concepts of water harvesting and management are not new. In communities where water scarcity is a fact of life, the techniques are essential. How do we envision a hydraulic society with a growing world population which has enormous impacts on climate, watersheds, coastal areas and the deep ocean? In this episode of World Ocean Radio, host Peter Neill will have us look no further than New York City and the Green Infrastructure Plan as a real and compelling example for sustainability and increased conservation values, and an illustration for improved water quality techniques which could be implemented by other mega-cities around the world.
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Peter Neill, Director of the W2O and host of World Ocean Radio, provides coverage of a broad spectrum of ocean issues from science and education to advocacy and exemplary projects. World Ocean Radio, a project of the World Ocean Observatory, is a weekly series of five-minute audio essays available for syndicated use at no cost by community radio stations worldwide.
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The concepts of water harvesting and management are not new. In communities where water scarcity is a fact of life, the techniques are essential. How do we envision a hydraulic society with a growing world population which has enormous impacts on climate, watersheds, coastal areas and the deep ocean? In this episode of World Ocean Radio, host Peter Neill will have us look no further than New York City and the Green Infrastructure Plan as a real and compelling example for sustainability and increased conservation values, and an illustration for improved water quality techniques which could be implemented by other mega-cities around the world.
______________________________________________________________________
Peter Neill, Director of the W2O and host of World Ocean Radio, provides coverage of a broad spectrum of ocean issues from science and education to advocacy and exemplary projects. World Ocean Radio, a project of the World Ocean Observatory, is a weekly series of five-minute audio essays available for syndicated use at no cost by community radio stations worldwide.
Broadcast History
WERU 89.9 FM, Blue Hill, ME; California Academy of Sciences/Steinhart Aquarium; KSER-FM, Everett, WA; Erie Maritime Museum, Mystic Seaport, Maine Boats Homes & Harbors; 3CR Melbourne: Out of the Blue.
Transcript
I’m Peter Neill, Director of the World Ocean Observatory.
In recent editions of World Ocean Radio, I have proposed a new strategy for organizing ocean conservation and related social behavior based on the concept of “hydraulic society,” particularly in the mega-cities where a vast number of the growing world population is now concentrated with enormous impact on climate, watersheds, coastal areas, and the deep ocean. Some have reacted that such an idea is too new, radical, impractical, and expensive. I can disagree, but to convince skeptics it is better to give examples of the successful application of the concept, historically and now.
First, the concept of water harvesting and management is certainly not new. In communities where water scarcity is a fact of life, in Asia and Africa among many other places, the techniques are essential. In Fatehpur Sikri, for example, a 16th centur...
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Peter Neill, Host; Trisha Badger, Associate Producer
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