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Deep Dive: Drought

The Aspen Ideas Festival is the nation's premier, public gathering place for leaders from around the globe and across many disciplines to engage in deep and inquisitive discussion of the ideas and issues that both shape our lives and challenge our times.

Deep Dive: Drought

Season 1 Episode 36 | 79m 50s

Scarcity — across the West and elsewhere increasingly — the issue about water is whether there is enough of it. Some suggest California could be “out of water” in 12 months. How threatening is the current drought? And what do we do about it? Featuring: Noah Diffenbaugh, James Famiglietti, David M. Kennedy, Moderator, Pete McBride, Pat Mulroy, William Phillimore, and Buzz Thompson

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