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University of Michigan
Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Michigan and co-founder of the Global Cleantech Cluster Association
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Peter Adriaens
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FROM Peter Adriaens
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Does the World Need Desalination? Water is humankind's most precious resource. Demand is rising and resources are running low. Conservation and reclamation are needed all over the world. Water shortages in the Middle East, Australia and the Western United States are creating an appetite for new water supplies. Greater efficiency and re-use of water that's now being wasted are obvious fixes. Beyond that, there's desalination of ocean water to create new supplies. That takes expensive technology. Will it discourage conservation? Is it worth the energy it demands and the impact on the environment? We look at the available options to cope with an inevitable, worldwide crisis.
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What happens when America retreats from the world? Is President Trump taking his "America First" agenda to extremes, withdrawing the country from the international stage on trade and climate change, distancing America from its traditional allies across the Atlantic and even threatening to physically isolate the country through the building of a wall along its southern border? León Krauze guest hosts.
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Trump plays scolder-in-chief with NATO allies At the opening of NATO’s dramatic new headquarters in Brussels today, President Trump acknowledged that Article 5 — promising that “an attack on one nation is an attack on all” -- has only been invoked one time: in the aftermath of September 11. But the President failed to provide what 27 other Alliance members have been waiting for: a re-commitment by America’s new leader to Article 5. Instead, they got a scolding.
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How was the trip? President Trump's travels got less fun as he went from the Middle East to Europe.
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Human Rights in the era of Donald Trump President Trump’s UN Ambassador, Nikki Haley, said today the US might pull out of the United Nations’ Human Rights Council. Serious violators of human rights are members of the Council itself–and a US resignation could make things worse. Later on today’s show, now that he’s into his second term, comedian turned US Senator Al Franken is telling jokes again.