Audacious Water with John Sabo

Jay Famiglietti, a hydrologist and a Global Futures Professor in the School of Sustainability at Arizona State University, joins John to talk about groundwater management and the state of water in the American west. Jay has extensive experience measuring and tracking groundwater and water security issues, including using satellites to help develop advanced computer models to track how freshwater a...

Cash Daniels is a 13-year-old from Chattanooga, Tennessee, who has been cleaning up rivers since he was just seven years old and cofounded the kid-run nonprofit, The Clean Up Kids. He and John talk about plastic waste in waterways and what can be done about it, how it affects human and wildlife health, and his upcoming documentary, The Conservation Kid. This is a public episode. If you would like...

Nancy Rabalais, Professor and Shell Endowed Chair in Oceanography and Wetland Studies at Louisiana State University and the lead scientist on the recent 2023 dead zone cruise, talks with John about the current state of the Gulf of Mexico dead zone, why it matters to the Gulf economy, what it might take to reverse it. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscriber...

Ed Clark, Director of NOAA’s National Water Center and the Deputy Director of the National Weather Service’s Office of Water Prediction, talks with John about how data science plays a role in water forecasting, how new tools and technologies can provide better services to all communities, and how the National Water Center might help prepare the nation for the implications of climate change on huma...

Can New Orleans thrive with water? Jessica Dandridge, Executive Director of The Water Collaborative in New Orleans, talks with John about what water justice means, how to engage communities in creating solutions, and why we should think about thriving versus resilience. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit audacio...

Phosphorus and nitrogen are critical for growing food but can be dangerous when they enter our waterways as runoff. Lisa Schulte Moore, a landscape ecologist, Iowa state university professor, and a 2021 MacArthur Fellow, talks with John about how Iowa agriculture practices impact the Mississippi River and how her work integrating prairie vegetation into crop fields led to real results in reducing...

The Mississippi river is basically the aorta of the United States, pumping out globally crucial agriculture and commerce to the world. In this new season of Audacious Water, we're exploring the challenges facing the Mississippi and the hundreds of millions of people who depend on it. Hear from experts about everything from how we can reduce the Gulf Dead Zone to how we can stop New Orleans from si...

Thomas LaVeist, public health expert and Dean of the School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine at Tulane University, talks with John about how climate change will impact health, especially for more vulnerable communities, and the role water will play. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit audaciouswater.substac...

John Sabo continues his conversation on the future of water with Morgan Snyder of the Walton Family Foundation, covering aquifers for storage, California vs. Arizona groundwater and whether farmland is natural infrastructure. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit audaciouswater.substack.com

In the first of a two-part conversation, John Sabo talks with Morgan Snyder, senior program officer in the Walton Family Foundation's Environment Program, about the future of the Colorado River and how to fix the culture of water use in the US West. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit audaciouswater.substack.com

What should a US natural infrastructure strategy look like? John talks with Todd Bridges, the US Army Corps of Engineers' senior research scientist for environmental science and the national lead for the Corps' Engineering with Nature Initiative. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit audaciouswater.substack.com

In the final part of our corporate water stewardship series, Glen Low of The Earth Genome talks with John about science-based targets, metrics and the next frontiers for business and water. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit audaciouswater.substack.com

John talks with The Nature Conservancy's Kari Vigerstol about the role NGOs have made in changing how corporations think about water stewardship & how that engagement has transformed NGOs. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit audaciouswater.substack.com

Todd Reeve, CEO of the Bonneville Water Foundation, tells John about how corporations collaborate (and don't) on water stewardship beyond their own fence lines. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit audaciouswater.substack.com

In the first in a four-part series on corporate water stewardship, Nick Martin of the Antea Group and the Beverage Industry Environmental Roundtable talks with John about how corporations have approached water stewardship inside their own four walls. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit audaciouswater.substack.com

Melody Wright, owner and principal of Say/Do Strategies and a former Philadelphia city official, tells John what lack of affordable access looks like in cities, why we don't understand the full extent of the problem, and how a Philadelphia program is providing a model solution for the rest of the nation. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get acce...

The chief of the US EPA's Clean Water State Revolving Fund talks with John about wildfires and watersheds, why we need to think about forests as water infrastructure and how to address agricultural pollution at a basin scale. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit audaciouswater.substack.com

The Dillard and Tulane University professor talks about her work with BIPOC communities along the Louisiana Gulf Coast, their vulnerabilities to hurricanes and how she manages the traditional tensions between researcher objectivity and being part of a community. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit audaciouswater....

The longtime Albuquerque Journal columnist and now University of New Mexico professor talks with John about the top water myths, why journalism about water is so gloomy, and what the Colorado River needs now. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit audaciouswater.substack.com

Becker, a citizen of the Navajo Nation and an associate attorney for the Navajo Tribal Utility Authority, tells John about the four buckets of water access for the Navajo Nation, why COVID-19 might present an opportunity to improve water equity for Native Americans, and why she takes a values vs. a solutions focus to water issues. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with ot...

The 2020 MacArthur Award winner talks with John about the lack of access to drinking water and sanitation in the United States, a problem that impacts millions and that Catherine argues demands a new solution that works in rural contexts. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit audaciouswater.substack.com