To the Best of Our Knowledge

PROMO       7/22/2007         "Water, Water Everywhere?"
*Are we running out of water? Science writer Fred Pearce thinks so. He's
traveled the world to investigate the current state of crucial water
sources.  In this hour of To the Best of Our Knowledge Pearce talks
about the defining crisis of the twenty-first century. Also, we'll
explore the social history of swimming pools in America. And the
globalization of sushi.

PROGRAM RUNDOWN:   "Water"

0:00 - 13:54        SEGMENT 1: (13:55)
            Veteran environmentalist Fred Pearce is the author of
            "When the Rivers Run Dry: Water   The Defining Crisis of
            the Twenty First Century."  He tells Steve Paulson he
            went to over 30 countries and discovered people are
            simply taking too much water out of the world's river
            systems.  
                    
            Segment One Outcue:  "...PRI - Public Radio
            International."

13:55 - 14:24  LOCAL OPTION with music bed (:29)

14:25 - 34:09       SEGMENT 2: (19:45)
            Jeff Wiltse is the author of "Contested Waters: a Social
            History of Swimming Pools in America."  He tells Anne
            Strainchamps how municipal pools have reflected the
            social tensions of American society, especially the
            racial tensions.  Also, Julia Whitty tells Jim Fleming
            about her life as a master diver and film-maker among the
            coral reefs in the South Pacific.  Her book is "The
            Fragile Edge: Diving and Other Adventures in the South
            Pacific."
                    
            Segment Two Outcue:  "...PRI - Public Radio
            International."

34:10 - 34:39       LOCAL OPTION with music bed (:29)

34:40 - 53:00       SEGMENT 3: (18:21)
            Carl Safina is an ecologist and marine conservationist. 
            He's the author of "Voyage of the Turtle: In Pursuit of
            the World's Last Dinosaur."  Safina tells Jim Fleming
            about the leatherback turtle, which has been around for a
            hundred million years. They have a huge range and can
            withstand very cold water. Also, Sasha Issenberg is the
            author of "The Sushi Economy: Globalization and the
            Making if a Modern Delicacy."  Issenberg tells Anne
            Strainchamps modern Sushi was born in 1971 when a Japan
            Airlines employee first brought Canadian tuna halfway
            around the world. 
                    
            Segment Three Outcue: PRI Audio Logo


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