The Water Data Podcast
The Water Data Podcast
WELL Labs
Water Security: 80 Years of Global Water Policy with Dr Roberto Lenton
58 minutes Posted Jul 7, 2026 at 12:30 pm.
Introduction
Welcome to the Water Data Podcast
How the Book: Confronting Water Insecurity came into
How UNESCO Accidentally Became the Home of Hydrology
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The Harvard Water Programme & the Birth of Integrated Planning
From Theory to Practice at the Ford Foundation
The Water & Sanitation Decade
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From Scarcity to Security: How the Language of Water Changed
Millennium Development Goals to Sustainable Development Goals
World bank Inspection Panels and Dam protests
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Systemic Failures and Climatisation of Water
Cases of Ideology Vs Science
Future of Water, Importance of data and Advice for Young Professionals
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Where did the idea of “water security” come from? How did countries around the world come to agree on shared goals for drinking water, sanitation, river basin management and sustainable development? And why does water still lack the kind of global institutional architecture that exists for climate change and biodiversity? In this episode, Dr Roberto Lenton, one of the world’s leading voices on water security and international development joins host Veena Srinivasan for a conversation on the e...