Ripple Effect: A Podcast Putting Water In Context

Send us Fan Mail Amanda Strack, Water Conservation Manager for Central Utah Water Conservancy District, joins us to talk about their new 2025 Water Conservation and Efficiency Plan. Amanda walks us through the conservation activities Central has taken to date, new planned activities going into the future, and Central’s water conservation goals for the next 5 years. This is a great discussion about...

Send us Fan Mail Managing Partner Davíd Pilz and Partner Amy McCoy, formerly of AMP Insights, join us to discuss their company's exciting rebrand to "Fluent Freshwater Insights". We dive deep into the company, its operational vision, and what this change signifies. Fluent strives to be a voice for the often-overlooked, tackling critical issues including in-stream restoration, revivi...

Send us Fan Mail Lindsey Davis, Director of Conservation at SITKA Gear, joins us to discuss the company's efforts to combine good business with philanthropic ideology. By looking beyond the bottom line, the company seeks to grow and protect the beauty of nature and connect people to the natural world - all while supplying high-tech high-performance gear for people to better enjoy the experien...

Send us Fan Mail Neal Spackman, Founder and CEO of Regenerative Enterprise and Founder of RAFT Co, joins us to discuss his extremely unique and impactful work to bring life back to some of the deadest places on Earth. We discuss in detail how the extremely dry and harsh desert climate of Saudi Arabia was transformed into a haven of tree growth and wildlife. All of this was done using natural and s...

Send us Fan Mail We are very excited to bring a very special live episode of Ripple Effect - thank you AGWT for inviting us to be the keynote speaker at your Rocky Mountain Conference. We are joined by our frequent collaborator Brett Bovee of WestWater Research to talk about Western groundwater management trends and coming concerns. We also have a lively audience discussion about the questions on...

Send us Fan Mail Lauren Foster, Environmental Manager with Neptune & Company, joins us to talk about her integrated modeling efforts to better forecast and predict water flows in the Colorado River Basin. By changing the resolution and including a variety of new groundwater inputs, Neptune's integrated modeling approach can address critical gaps between generalized global climate models a...

Send us Fan Mail Amber Pacheco, Deputy General Manager for the Rio Grande Water Conservation District, joins us for a very special Ripple Effect episode to discuss the development of groundwater sub-districts to manage groundwater in the San Luis Valley. This discussion is being recorded ahead of the American Groundwater Trust's Rocky Mountain Conference in Grand Junction, Colorado. Amber doe...

Send us Fan Mail This week, our host Emily is in New York at the Rethinking Water 2025 conference hosted by Sciens Water. The goal of this conference is to find solutions to the most pressing water challenges in the United States. In honor of that, we are looking back on episode 206: Sciens Water. Alex Loucopoulos , and Quinten Dreesmann, of Sciens Water, a fund of Sciens Capital, join us for a re...

Send us Fan Mail Kyle Roerink, Executive Director of the Great Basin Water Network, joins us to discuss the Network's involvement in the diverse nexus of water in the basin. We break down the big water sources in the west: Lake Mead, the Colorado River, and groundwater. We discuss the Network's critical work addressing water conservation for the entire basin, touching on litigation, lobb...

Send us Fan Mail Quinn Kendrick, In-House Counsel for Peoples Company, joins us to talk about how Peoples is a "one-stop" shop providing a multitude of helpful services to landowners and farm operations. This is a great discussion about the niche field of agricultural law, the mechanics of a farm transactions and auction, and the various ways Peoples provides farm management services. Qu...

Send us Fan Mail Ben Masters, Founder and Filmmaker at Fin & Fur Films, Sinjin Eberle, Senior Director of Regional Communications at American Rivers, and Lenn Necefer, CEO of Natives Outdoors, join us to discuss their awesome new firm "The American Southwest." The film is a stunning visual story of the Colorado River told by following the river from headwaters to delta and highlighti...

Send us Fan Mail Crystal Simons, Founder and CEO of Foresight Conservation, a national non-profit organization, joins us for a fantastic discussion about conservation easements, the various Federal programs designed to benefit the public by securing conservation values on private lands, and the importance of public/private partnerships for executing land stewardship and restoration goals. This is...

Send us Fan Mail This week we are revisiting an earlier episode that is still highly relevant to today's water discussion. We are looking back on episode 182: Minimum System Specific Sizing Standards. Dani Zebelean, Environmental Engineer III with the Utah Division of Drinking Water, joins us to discuss Minimum System Specific Sizing Standards. We discuss how Utah is working to get a better u...

Send us Fan Mail This week we have a very special Rewind Episode. Your host Emily is joining a discussion panel about the Great Salt Lake at the UMOCA building. In preparation, we are looking back on episode 174: Art for the Great Salt Lake Part 1. Join Emily at this special event! - https://utahmoca.org/event/water-land-and-the-work-of-art-a-conversation-on-the-great-salt-lake/ Andrew Shaw, Wake...

Send us Fan Mail This week we are revisiting an earlier episode that is still highly relevant to today's water discussion. We are looking back on episode 110: Water Rights Valuations. Harry Seely and Brett Bovee of West Water Research join us to discuss how West Water approaches water rights valuations.  We also dip into the topic of market for Ag optimization water.

Send us Fan Mail Todd Votteler, Principal at Collaborative Water Resolution and Editor and Chief of the Talk + Water Podcast and Texas Water Journal, joins us to talk about his work creating a new Texas Water Markets report. Todd walks us through a fantastic discussion regarding the complicated nature of the Texas water law, the Edwards Aquifer and the Rio Grande water markets, and his predictions...

Send us Fan Mail Alex Loucopoulos , and Quinten Dreesmann, of Sciens Water, a fund of Sciens Capital, join us for a return visit to Ripple Effect. In the last four years, Sciens Water has expanded beyond their initial platform of investing in mid-cap private water companies to creating an innovative pay-for-service model that helps reduce risk and create access to capital for a number of needed mu...

Send us Fan Mail Andrew Dugan, Copywriter & Marketing Strategist in the Water Industry, joins us to discuss his niche business in helping water industry professionals and practitioners tell their story. By combining a unique experience of engineering consultant, sales, and journalism, Andrew understands the water industry and helps busy water professionals create white papers, press releases,...

Send us Fan Mail John Kemper, Research Scientist in the Department of Watershed Sciences at Utah State University, joins us to discuss his work creating water quality models and how these models can be applied to address contemporary water issues. We often discuss water quantity models, but water quality models are a magnitude greater in difficulty and complexity. With changing watershed condition...

Send us Fan Mail Rob Sowby, professor, working engineer, and author, joins us to discuss his new book "Terminus." Rob takes a unique approach to unpacking the complicated water management issues around the Great Salt Lake by weaving in personal stories and conversations with water users around the Lake. Rob brings a wealth of expertise to this journey and is able to highlight and describ...

Send us Fan Mail David Gory, Co-Founder and CEO of Airbuild, joins us to discuss Airbuild's incredibly innovative and exciting "Project Photosynthesis" pilot project in Green River, Utah. Through the power of algae, Project Photosynthesis creates multiple environmental benefits: 1) it cleans river water by removing nutrient loads, e-coli, and other pollutants; 2) it is a carbon-capt...

Send us Fan Mail Emily Olsen, Vice President - Rocky Mountains for Trout Unlimited, Elizabeth Gonzalez, Operations Manager for Blue Commons, and Elijah Tangenberg of CKBlueshift, LLC, join us to talk about Blue Commons and their new ReBeaver Restoration Fund. This is an exciting discussion about Blue Commons and their innovative approach to bring readily available and deployable financing for wate...

Send us Fan Mail Peter Culp, Co-Founder and Managing Partner, and Mary Kelly, Co-Founder and Partner Emeritus, join us to talk about the innovative work Culp & Kelly and Blueshift are undertaking at the nexus of water, climate, finance, and natural resource management. As a new partner with Culp & Kelly, your host Emily Lewis, talks with Mary and Peter about the creation of Culp & Kell...

Send us Fan Mail On the eve of our 200th episode, we are looking back on a similarly epic milestone, episode 100: Klamath Drainage District.  Reagan Desmond walks us through the complicated and complex world of the Klamath Basin. From Endangered Species actions, to water quality issues, to drought - the Klamath is a microcosm of the larger water world. Fantastic discussion!!

Send us Fan Mail On the eve of our 200th episode, we are looking back to the very beginning, episode 01: Massive Canals and Lots of Mint.  The heart of the Bear River Canal Company system has been in operation since the late 1880s. BRCC representatives Curtis Marble and Trevor Nielson discuss Company history, coming challenges, and opportunities for the future.