Subscribe or Log In to Anytime
Access audio & film from your favourite writers and thinkers
Give the gift of Anytime
Treat someone to a Hay Festival Anytime subscription

Listen

Virginia Mendoza and Ricaurte Vásquez in conversation with Ángel Cárdenas

On water, the most precious good

 
Panamá 2025, 

Ángel Cárdenas, CAF Urban Development, Water and Creative Economies Manager, talks with two water experts, from the fields of anthropology and management, looking into water security and the social and human challenges regarding the most precious asset. With Virginia Mendoza (Spain), author and journalist, who with her book La sed. Una historia antropológica (y personal) de la vida en tierras de agua escasa (Thirst. An anthropological (and personal) story of life in water-scarce lands), takes readers on a fascinating journey through time and space. And with Ricaurte Vásquez (Panama), economist and administrator of the Panama Canal, an worldwide example of sustainable water management.

Virginia Mendoza and Ricaurte Vásquez in conversation with Ángel Cárdenas