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Investigative journalists Leana Hosea and Rachel Salvidge bring you tales from the frontline of the water crisis, interviewing people who are experiencing first hand the pollution, drought, floods, extinction events and diseases driven by climate change and bad management. Talking also to world class experts, Rachel and Leana find out how each crisis began and explore possible solutions. From: Watershed Investigations https://watershedinvestigations.com/ @WATERSHED_i Frequency: Fortnightly Duration: Approx. 20 minutes Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Watershed hosts The WATERSHED investigations, a news show with 20 episodes published.
Feargal Sharkey tells Watershed's Rachel Salvidge why he's had enough of playing nicely in his quest to get water companies to stop dumping sewage in rivers and why he is now mobilising the masses to march on Parliament
Five Just Stop Oil activists receive record sentences for planning to block M25. Watershed attended the sentencing and heard from the celebrity supporters Chris Packham, the wildlife TV presenter, Dale Vince, the head of
The EU Parliament elections have seen rightwing party gains, causing the President of France to call snap elections, possibly empowering the rightwing further. Nobel Peace Prize winning climate scientist, Wolfgang Cramer
It’s been ten years since the US state governor of Michigan decided to switch the city of Flint from their clean drinking water supply in Detroit to the Flint river to save money. It led to one of America’s biggest publi
Sacrifice zones are described by the UN as places where people suffer devastating physical and mental health consequences and human rights violations as a result of living in pollution hotspots and heavily contaminated a
In this briefing, Leana and Rachel speak to Louisa Casson of Greenpeace, about the battle between miners and environmentalists over the treasure trove of metals at the bottom of the oceans. Casson sheds light on the rece
When UPL's warehouse in Durban was set on fire in 2021, the toxic agrochemicals it housed washed into the river and out to sea, causing a huge marine die-off. Environmental Goldman Prize Winner, Desmond D'Sa, tells us ho
A toxic cocktail of damaging chemicals created by road pollution is flowing into England’s rivers and no regulator is monitoring the scale of its impact on wildlife or public health. In this special episode - a collabora
The people of Gaza are on the frontline of a water crisis. Since Hamas attacked Israel on 7 October, killing 1200 Israelis and taking hostages, Gaza has been under unprecedented bombardment, killing more than 28,000 Pale
In this special episode, Leana and Rachel discuss their new film in which they travel the country testing for toxic PFAS 'forever chemical' pollution at hotspots around Britain. Find out which river is carrying one of th
The paradise islands of Tuvalu are disappearing beneath the waves as climate change bites. Grace Malie, a Tuvaluan Youth Delegate from the Rising Nations Initiative speaks from COP28 about her hopes and fears and relucta
We bust the myth of recycling, expose the harassment of scientists, discuss waste colonialism, and find out who walked out of the Plastic Treaty negotiations. Leana Hosea and Rachel Salvidge talk to Ahmed Tiamiyu, the Ex
Former US EPA official Kyla Bennett talks about her exposure to cancer-linked PFAS chemicals, and Rob Bilott, the lawyer described as 'DuPont's worst nightmare' and who is played by Mark Ruffalo in the Hollywood film Dar
In this 15 minute briefing, Leana and Rachel pour over Labour's pledges to crack down on the water companies and their other environment promises at the party conference. How much is new, how does it compare to Tory plan
Rachel and Leana hear how the beloved River Wye has spiralled from a "crystal clear" natural paradise to a "pea green" algal bloom soup in one man's lifetime. Fly fishing guide Nathan Jubb talks about life on the river a
In these 10 minute briefings, investigative journalists Leana Hosea and Rachel Salvidge discuss the latest news developments. In this episode they explore the anger around the government's plans to discard protections fo
Rachel and Leana hear how the government has "wasted the last 10 years or so in terms of making proper preparations for the way the climate is changing", according to Dame Julia King, Baroness Brown of Cambridge, who adv
Cape Town teeters on the edge of Day Zero - the time when water will no longer flow from its taps. But poorer residents are first the feel the thirst and say water rationing is slowly killing them. Rachel and Leana speak
Rachel and Leana interview Nyombi Morris, an environmental activist who was flooded out of his home in Uganda, where drought and locusts are also causing death and displacement. Then Sir David King, former chief scientif
Rachel and Leana tackle the malodorous issue of raw sewage pollution. Human waste flows through the UK's rivers and seas, fuelling outrage among the population, not least in former rock and pop star Feargal Sharkey, whos
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