Sep 17, 2026 · 7 min · 4 segments
Welcome to the seventh season of Water Talk! Cohosts Drs. Mallika Nocco, Faith Kearns, and Sam Sandoval talk about the upcoming season. Released September 17, 2026
And I think as we've gone on in time, at first we were very driven by people we wanted to talk to, and we still are.
We're like, well, who are we going to talk to about cloud seeding? And just trying to find interesting people to help talk about these different topics is really exciting.
For me, the other thing that's been kind of fun and special and new about season seven is I started teaching my large public facing class here at UW Madison called Water and People.
Having a large group of undergraduates ask questions about water and engage on these topics also helped to kind of feed my own curiosity and help me think about like, well, what do people want to know about or what are people excited about? And it's just kind of an interesting and different framing for me to have going into season seven is thinking about water.
But make listen to all of our episodes and how to keep things interesting for them too.
And for me, for the topics, you know, at least in my case, throughout, as soon as the season ends, and then I do my rounds around different conferences, there are times where I see like, oh my God, we need to interview this person, or this is a great topic.
Surprisingly, at least in my case, We've been talking about rethinking agriculture.
But I think it's good to rethink to some of the topics that we already have, cloud seeding.
Others, to actually see agriculture as the solution to agriculture, which we all know they are.
But unfortunately, sometimes, again, in my microcosm, sometimes I see way too much of one type of agriculture that is...
in that kind of middle portion with, yes, it's providing food, but also some side effects.
And I think as we've gone on in time, at first we were very driven by people we wanted to talk to, and we still are.
We're like, well, who are we going to talk to about cloud seeding? And just trying to find interesting people to help talk about these different topics is really exciting.
For me, the other thing that's been kind of fun and special and new about season seven is I started teaching my large public facing class here at UW Madison called Water and People.
Having a large group of undergraduates ask questions about water and engage on these topics also helped to kind of feed my own curiosity and help me think about like, well, what do people want to know about or what are people excited about? And it's just kind of an interesting and different framing for me to have going into season seven is thinking about water.
But make listen to all of our episodes and how to keep things interesting for them too.
And for me, for the topics, you know, at least in my case, throughout, as soon as the season ends, and then I do my rounds around different conferences, there are times where I see like, oh my God, we need to interview this person, or this is a great topic.
Surprisingly, at least in my case, We've been talking about rethinking agriculture.
But I think it's good to rethink to some of the topics that we already have, cloud seeding.
Others, to actually see agriculture as the solution to agriculture, which we all know they are.
But unfortunately, sometimes, again, in my microcosm, sometimes I see way too much of one type of agriculture that is...
in that kind of middle portion with, yes, it's providing food, but also some side effects.
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