Climate Water Project
This podcast explores how we can restore our water cycles, covering topics like rain, groundwater, and the small water cycle. It discusses methods to hydrate landscapes and improve water management.
Episodes
Activating a global network of water restorers and advocates : Zach Weiss
Zach Weiss launched an education and community platform Water Stories which trains people to restore water cycles via earthworks, soil restoration, and ecosystem restoration. Central is the idea of retention ponds and terraces which help slow water and help it seep into the aqufers below so the ecosystem has year round access to water. The education trains students to learn the art, find and take
Rewilding, beavers, and water restoration :Derek Gow
https://climatewaterproject.substack.com/p/rewilding-beavers-and-water-restoration
Insurance and supply chains-the secret levers to restore water : Stephanie Betts
To restore water, shift to regenerative ag: to shift the world to regenerative ag, redo global supply chains https://climatewaterproject.substack.com/p/supply-chains-and-insurance-the-secret
Precipitationsheds and the socio-economics of rain: Patrick Keys
Patrick Keys, a professor at Boston University, studies the sources and sinks of rain in the moisture recycling process (aka small water cycle). He looks at how they are embedded in socio-economic systems.
The big groundwater crisis - food, water, pollution, and social unrest : John Cherry
John Cherry won the Stockholm Water Prize, known as the ‘Nobel’ of water, which is awarded in conjunction with the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, the same institution behind the Nobel Prize itself. He wrote the seminal Groundwater textbook that shaped our modern understanding of groundwater hydrology. He pioneered the field of groundwater contamination.
The planetary boundaries of green water : Lan Wang-Erlandsson
Lan Wang-Erlandsson is a researcher studying moisture recycling aka small water cycle. She focuses on the large-scale interactions between land, water, and climate, and their implications for social-ecological and Earth system resilience. She has conducted work on the planetary boundaries of green water, helped society understand moisture recycling as an ecosystem service, and collaborated with th
The Forest-Water Connection : ecologist Douglas Sheil
Douglas Sheil is an ecologist at Wageningen University in the Netherlands. He has worked on questions of how forests affect watersheds, how to restore and conserve forests, and also helped clarify explanations of the Biotic Pump. For more info https://climatewaterproject.substack.com/p/the-forest-water-connection-ecologist. You can help support this podcast by becoming a subscriber of the Climate
Making the map of the small water cycle : Ruud van der Ent
Dr. van der Ent is a hydrologist who made a global map of the small water cycle, showing what percentage of the evapotranspiration turns back into rainfall on the same continent. For written article https://climatewaterproject.substack.com/p/making-the-map-of-the-small-water
'Our Blue World' documentary : Paul O'Callaghan
A wonderful new documentary, Our Blue World, is out, and it offers a panoramic exploration of how communities across the globe are learning to live in greater harmony with water. The film highlights a wide range of innovative and traditional practices—from China’s sponge city initiative, to New Zealand’s recognition of the Whanganui River as a legal person, to the ancient Peruvian techniques for g
Putting rocks into rivers to lessen drought-fire-flood : Laura Norman, physical scientist
Laura Norman is a physical scientist with the USGS. Doing hydrological modelling of slow water. https://climatewaterproject.substack.com/p/putting-rocks-in-rivers-to-lessen
Natural Sequence Farming : Stuart Andrews
The five principles of Natural Sequence Farming (NSF) are:1) Slow the Flow: Emphasizing the importance of slowing down water flow to allow infiltration into the soil.2) Let All Plants Grow: Promoting plant diversity and allowing natural regeneration of the landscape.3) Careful Where the Animals Go: Integrating livestock management with the natural sequence of the landscape.4) Filtration is a Must
The Art of Water : Charlotte Qin
Charlotte Qin in an artist of water. She paints the fluid flow of water in its different forms, and she does reciprocal performances about water, where she interacts with the audience, as they connect with the water. For more info https://climatewaterproject.substack.com/p/the-art-of-water-charlotte-qin . You can support this work by becoming a paid subscriber of the Climate Water Project newslett
Plants drink water from the air: hydrologist Sieger Burger interview
In this interview, we talk about a wide range of topics in hydrology, including how plants drink water from the air in a process called foliar water uptake. Article is at https://climatewaterproject.substack.com/p/plants-drink-water-from-the-air-hydrologist
The Water Solution - A plan to lessen LA & California fires : with Didi Pershouse
Rehydrating Los Angeles and its surrounding areas can help lessen fires. For more see climatewaterproject.substack.com
How can we restore bioregions? Willem Ferwerda
A participatory approach to restore bioregions. Commonland is an organization that helps facilitate multistakeholders to come together to look at how to restore the land, ecosystem, and water. It works to bring farmers, businesses, NGOs, local government, and academics together in a collaborative approach. They work to restore 100000 +hectares in a bioregion. An interview of the Climate Water Proj
Absorbing rains to bring landscapes back to life : Neal Spackman
Neal Spackman discusses his project that restored desert lands in Saudi Arabia, his work with the Great Green Wall of Africa, and eco and water restoration ideas for Spain. https://climatewaterproject.substack.com/p/absorbing-rains-to-bring-landscapes
Regenerating a farm and a semi-arid region : Silvia Quarta
La Junquera is a farm on a windswept plateau in southeastern Spain. www.lajunquera.com/ . Its part of a collective of farms and businesses called Alvelal that is working to regenerate the region. https://alvelal.es/. For more info and transcript https://climatewaterproject.substack.com/p/regenerating-a-farm-and-a-semi-arid
Regenerative tourism and regenerative water: Anna Pollock
Anna Pollock has played a significant role in launching the regenerative tourism movement. For more info see https://climatewaterproject.substack.com/p/how-eco-tourism-can-help-the-regenerative and http://www.conscious.travel/
The Joy of Restoring Water Cycles : Nick Steiner
Nick Steiner is a water management consultant at PermaNick , and works at Water Stories, which trains people in the ways of water management. For the essay on this podcast see Climate Water Project
Investing in water and regenerative agriculture : Koen van Seijen
Koen van Seijen is the host of the "Investing in regenerative agriculture and food" podcast, and also manager at Toniic, an impact investment organization. We discuss various ways of funding the regenerative agriculture as well as the regenerative water movement. for interview also see the Climate Water Project Newsletter . The "Investing in regenerative agriculture and food" podc
Beaverland - Leila Philip
Beavers a keystone species. Bringing them back can help us restore wetlands, rivers, biodiversity, and climate. For article https://climatewaterproject.substack.com/p/beaverland-interview-with-author . Leila Philip's website https://www.leilaphilip.com/
Maladaptations in the time of water crisis : Robert Miller
Stephen Robert Miller is the author of "Over the Seawall", where he looks at the unintended consequences of our water infrastructures, and when they backfire. His book describes humans attempts to control water scarcity, droughts, floods, and tsunamis, and how these attempts can worsen the situation. His website is stephenrobertmiller.com . You can read the article on this work at the Clim
Slowing our waters : Erica Gies
An interview with Erica Gies, author of "Water Always Wins" and writer for New York Times, National Geographic, Scientific American and Nature. She discusses how our current 'grey infrastructure' solutions to floods and droughts, may cause more problems than they solve. Instead she proposes 'green infrastructure', nature-based solutions. She discusses the importance of not
Bread and Museums : A dialog with Didi Pershouse
From restoring peoples health to restoring the earth health, Didi Pershouse, brings her sweetness and wisdom to help heal humans and Gaia. She is the author of “Understanding soil health and watershed function”, and teaches ecological knowledge through her Land and Leadership Initiative. In conjunction with Walter Jehne, she has facilitated numerous water projects around the world.Didi Pershouse i
Halting our drought-fire-flood path to desertification: Zach Weiss
Zach Weiss is a land and water manager that helps restore the water cycle on our land. He also teaches a course to train people in water restoration. For the essay interview see here. For a link to his water course see hereNewsletter: climatewaterproject.substack.com
India's Regenerative Water Movement : Andrew Millison
Andrew Millison is one of the world's most known permaculture teachers. He travelled to India to document what he calls the worlds largest permaculture project, where 8000 villagers participated to build earthworks and reforest the land, which restored the water cycle to help the crops grow, and also brought back the rain. For accompanying article to this podcast https://climatewaterproject.su
How to turn deserts into grasslands : Rodger Savory
Rodger Savory is an ecologist, land manager, and ranch owner who worked in his Holistic Management, the ecorestoration movement his dad Alan Savory started.He set himself the goal of figuring out how to turn deserts into grasslands.His website is www.fixdeserts.comThe article that goes with this podcast is at https://climatewaterproject.substack.com/p/cows-chickens-microbes-and-fungi
Animals are helping our water cycle : Judith Schwartz
Judith Schwartz, author of "Water in Plain Sight" joins us to discuss how animals affect the water cycle.Her website is judithschwartz.comOur website is climatewaterproject.substack.comand instagram.com/climatewaterproject
Beavers, biology, and slow water : Brock Dolman
Brock Dolman is a conservation biologist and permaculture teacher who coined the phrase "Slow it, sink it, spread it" and helped co-found the Occidental Arts and Ecology Center and the Water Institute https://oaec.org/our-work/projects-and-partnerships/water-institute/His organizations work helped bring back the beaver in California, and has helped communties restore the water cycle in the
The Water Tale : a rap song
Teisho and Alpha rap about the water cycle.For more info : https:climatewaterproject.substack.comwww.instagram.com/climatewaterprojectIf you would like to support this project https://www.patreon.com/watercology
Charles Eisenstein: Water and the Living Earth
Charles Eisenstein is the author of "Climate", "Ascent of humanity", "The more beautiful world that we know". He discusses the importance of water to our ecosystems and the climate, and how we can heal our relationship to the environment.You can see the article at the Climate Water Project newsletter https://climatewaterproject.substack.com/p/charles-eisenstein-water-and-th
Biotic pump -how forests create rain :Anastasia Makarieva
Forests evapotranspire water vapor. When that vapor condenses to form clouds it creates a lessening of pressure which can then attract more moisture from the ocean. Anastasia Makarieva and Victor Gorshov discovered this effect called the Biotic Pump
Regreening the Sinai : Ties van der Hoeven
An ambitious project to regreen the Sinai desert in Egypt is underway. It involves 1) restoring Lake Bardawil at the northern tip of the Sinai 2) turning the sediment from the lake into soil which is then used to jump start the regreening process in the desert. Creating temporary ecosystems in geodesic domes that catalyse the ecosuccession process 3) a shift in the rain and wind patterns that resu
Communities can protect themselves against floods and droughts : Minni Jain
Minni Jain is the founder of the Flow Partnership, an organization that has helped thousands of communities in India and Britain protect themselves against floods and droughts, by the use of simple watercatchment structures that can slow, sink, and spread the rainfall as it comes down.
How to replenish our groundwater : Helen Dahlke
Professor Helen Dahlke, of the University of California of Davis, has been leading the (re)charge to replenish California’s groundwaters. She has teamed up with farmers, to guide the excess water from the winter rains to flood farms, thus creating temporary wetlands. Over days and weeks, that water then sinks down to replenish the aquifers.In this podcast Helen Dahlke shares about her research, th
How forests increase rain : Francina Dominguez
Francina Dominguez, a hydroclimatologist at the University of Illinois has been figuring out where our rain comes from. She has been tracking water as it moves across our continents. The process of moisture hopping, or moisture recycling (also known as the small water cycle in other circles), is the movement of water from air to land to air to land and so on - rain falls to the land, and then evap
Stories of our Watersheds: Elizabeth Dougherty
In this podcast I interview Dr. Elizabeth Dougherty, executive director of WhollyH20. She was instrumental in helping get California to pass its greywater laws. She did this by bring different demographics together - the hippies who knew about what to do with water, with the Stanford engineers who were happy to learn about these methods, and the government officials who could implement the new wat
Pee, Poo, Wastewater: Nik Bertulis
Nik Bertulis is a permaculture water educator, a designer of integrated water systems, implementing greywater, rainwater, stormwater and wetland systems. He cofounded Dig.coop a water conservation systems cooperative. He has designed many innovative water solutions for our environment.We talk about the importance of closing the nutrient cycles in our environment. What our society considers waste,
Natural Sequence Farming; Climate&Water : David Maher
David Maher is an experienced land management practitioner who has helped restore natural water processes on many lands. He worked with Peter Andrews who founded the Natural Sequence Farming modality. He expounds here on how our land and water management affects the climate.
Green and Grey Infrastructure: Angelina Cook
How we can used nature based solutions, rather than man made infrastructures for our water.
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