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New Hampshire is growing and that means new strains on our water supply. Some complain of soaring water prices along with old infrastructure and strict quality standards. Now some communities are looking to develop “water plans”. We explore how much water we have and use, who uses it and what some are doing to make sure we have enough water.

This program was originally broadcast on July 23, 2008

Guests

• Marilee Horn, water use specialist at United States Geological Survey in New Hampshire and lead author of a study on water use for the Seacoast region
• Derek Bennett, manager of the Water Use and Conservation Program for the Drinking Water and Groundwater Bureau of New Hampshire’s Department of Environmental Services
• Andrew Stone, Executive Director of the American Groundwater Trust in Concord

We'll also hear from

• Phil Bilodeau, Deputy Director of the General Services Department for the City of Concord
• Denise Hart, Board Member for Save Our Groundwater, a nonprofit dedicated to protecting water in the public trust

We look back at some of the state’s biggest stories of the year - and forward to the coming year. We’ll look at the New Hampshire’s First in the Nation primary, the general election and the victory of New Hampshire’s first woman Senator, Jeanne Shaheen. We’ll talk about an ice storm and tornado that wreaked havoc on our state, at the first death penalty sentence in New Hampshire in almost 50 years. We’ll remember longtime Republican State Representative Mike Whalley and discuss the state’s first ever wind farm in Lempster and major changes right here on NHPR.

Guests

• Jim Van Dongen, public information officer for the Department of Emergency Management
• Kathy Marchocki, staff reporter for the New Hampshire Union Leader
• James Pindell, national managing editor of the Politicker.com websites and author of the Pindell Report, analyzing campaigns for Congress, Senate and Governor
• Josh Rogers, State House Reporter for New Hampshire Public Radio
• David Hess, Republican state representative from Hooksett
• Ed Cherion, project manager for Iberdola Renewable
• Virginia Prescott, host of NHPR’s Word of Mouth
• Jeanne Shaheen, Democratic Senator-elect and former governor of New Hampshire from Madbury

The Exchange takes a break for a holiday special. According to the Gospel of Luke, when the Angel Gabriel revealed to Mary that she would bear the Son of God, she replied with the familiar words of the Magnificat, which begins, "My soul doth magnify the Lord, and my spirit hath rejoiced in God my savior." "Magnificat," an American broadcast debut, features the Yale Schola Cantorum in a period-style performance of Felix Mendelssohn's setting of the text, directed by Simon Carrington. February 3, 2009 marks the 200th anniversary of Mendelssohn's birth and Schola Cantorum and period instrumentalists from the Yale School of Music have made this debut recording of the work, coupling it with J.J Bach's setting, on which Mendelssohn modeled his own. "Magnificat" presents a unique opportunity to hear both Christmas works back-to-back with some of the finest young vocal and instrumental talent in America. Host and celebrated conductor Simon Carrington leads the performances, recorded in Yale's renowned Woolsey Hall.

The best-selling and critically lauded novelist is back with The Hour I First Believed, his first new work in nine years. It follows the story of a couple relocating from Colorado to Connecticut after the wife survives the 1999 murders at Columbine High School. At the latest Writers on a New England Stage event, Lamb talked about his books and his career with NHPR's Laura Knoy. Today we bring you that event.

It’s a health threat bigger than AIDS, malaria, or famine, yet it’s also a matter of life: human waste and how we dispose of it. The author of a new book called “The Big Necessity” examines this indelicate subject, arguing that far more public attention must be paid to sanitation systems around the world. We’ll talk about what to do with number two.

This program was originally broadcast November 12, 2008

Guest

• Rose George, author of The Big Necessity: The Unmentionable World of Human Waste and Why it Matters