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there is something about the environment

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that's just incredibly cool

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a lot of what we do as scientists is

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we're just curious and so anybody who's

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a curious person ought to be a scientist

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in my opinion you can think of the

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world's Rivers as Earth's arteries

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because they're essential to life I'm

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Cedric David and I study the world's

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Rivers

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SWAT is a mission that is specifically

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designed in part to observe rivers and

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it's also being designed jointly by NASA

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and the french-based agency I was born

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in France but I've lived in the U.S for

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18 years now and I study Rivers so SWA

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is a little bit of a match made in

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heaven for me the kind of science that

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I'm interested in is trying to

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understand how how much water flows down

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the rivers of the world and SWAT will be

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able to make one such measurement for

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all the largest rivers of the world so

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we'll be able to get a global unified a

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picture of surface waters from space

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this in itself will be a scientific

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revolution I think that's going to have

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a big impact on Water Management

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I like to say that water is my friend

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water is my happy place

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I was born with a physical disability

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that affected both of my legs

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being able to walk now was not a done

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deal at Birth

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and it still involves a significant

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amount of discomfort and is a constant

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reminder of having been born different

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for as long as I can remember water has

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been the only place where I felt

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comfortable where I felt normal where I

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felt like I couldn't do things like

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everybody else when I get in the water

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is just like I mean you're floating when

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you're floating it's just like all the

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pain goes away

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as a kid my parents would take my

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brother and I all the time to jump in

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the Mediterranean but to this day we

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still do it on New Year's Day every year

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I think for future Generations requires

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us understanding how much water we have

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and her SWAT will be able to provide

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that global view of the world's fresh

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waters and in my opinion it might very

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well become the key that unlocks surface

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water observations around the world and

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unleashes surface water management so it

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might help us make sure that everybody

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gets access to fresh water now more than

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ever it's important to recognize that

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water connects us all and it might be