Ripple Effect: A Podcast Putting Water In Context

Send us Fan Mail Andrew Shaw, Wake the Great Salt Lake Coordinator for the Salt Lake City Arts Council and Kellie Bornhoft, Artist, Professor, and Grant Recipient, join us to talk about the Wake the Great Salt Lake Art Project and Kellie’s “By A Thread” art installation. Hopefully one of several discussions, we talk about the Bloomberg funded art project, Kellie’s artwork as the first of 12 art pr...

Send us Fan Mail Paige Damiano, Director of The Water Table, and Patrick McCarthy, Water Policy Officer of the Thornburg Foundation, join us to talk about the funder collaborative that is The Water Table. This is a fantastic discussion on the role and power of coordinating and leveraging philanthropic funds to support water initiatives and projects. Philanthropic dollars are a huge part of funding...

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 16: Reclaiming the Discussion. A talk with Mike Luers of the Snyderville Basin Reclamation District regarding water reclamation and reuse. Interesting tidbits about fish on Prozac and re-framing the narrative on waste water. 

Send us Fan Mail Page Weil, Senior Water Resources at LRE and Erik Skeie, Special Projects Coordinator at Colorado Water Conservation Board, join us to discuss airborne snow observatory efforts in Colorado. This is a great companion episode to our earlier discussion regarding Utah’s ASO efforts. This episodes goes further into the organization and function of the Colorado Airborne Snow Measurement...

Send us Fan Mail Megan Jenkins, Chief Marketing Officer of Yoppify, makes a return appearance to discuss their Washington County Water Conservancy District pilot project to use Yoppify’s electronic platform to collect retail water use data and communicate with water users. Yoppify is assisting WCWCD’s municipal customers to automate leak notifications, increase AMI engagement, proactively identify...

Send us Fan Mail We are joined by an all-star team from the Utah Geological Survey – Hugh Hurlow, Program Manager of the Groundwater and Wetlands Program, Paul Inkenbrandt, Senior Geologist, and Emily Jainarain, Hydrogeologist, to discuss the new UGS Utah Groundwater Data Hub. The new Hub combines UGS’s existing groundwater data and is built to grow and include other datasets as the site develops....

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 34: Building a Market. Great discussion with Kristina Ribellia, Founder and Chief Operations Director of Western Water Market. We discuss gaps in the water market and how to build a platform that is useful for water users, professionals, and...

Send us Fan Mail Jeff Deems from Airborne Snow Observatories and Lily Bosworth from the Colorado River Authority of Utah join us to talk about their joint venture to more accurately measure snowpack in the Colorado Basin.  ASO employs a new flight technology using a combination of LIDAR and a high resolution spectrometer to remotely sense the depth of snowpack and get the snow water equivalent. Th...

Send us Fan Mail Bart Leeflang, Assistant General Manager of Central Utah Water Conservancy District, joins us to discuss Central’s SID pilot projects efforts. This discussion is much broader than the Pelican Lake project but also gives us a helpful insight into the role, importance, and evolution of Central – the lynchpin of Utah water.

Send us Fan Mail Shane Coors, President, and Tony Powell, Senior Water Resources Engineer, from Precision Water Resources Engineering join us to talk about the RiverWare modeling software and the importance of modeling for large water systems. They discuss their theory of “stewardship through technology” and helping clients model a number of hydrologic, water rights, and water policy/contract cons...

Send us Fan Mail Tage Flint joins us to discuss Utah Water Ways, Utah’s new entity tasked with coordinating state water conservation efforts. Tage brings his decades of experience to help Utah make the most of its conservation programs and initiatives.

Send us Fan Mail Rebecca Jewett, President and CEO, and Kristie Nackord, Vice President External Affairs, of the Palmer Land Conservancy, join us to discuss their innovate agricultural partnerships in Southern Colorado aim at conserving water and promoting the local community. We also talk about their very cool Marisol Film project as a unique way to tell their story and engage a larger audience.

Send us Fan Mail Clyde Snow’s own Nate Broadhurst joins us to talk about a recent Utah Court of Appeals decision distinguishing the difference between water rights and water shares. Spoiler, water rights are real property and water shares are personal property governed by corporate law. Great discussion and some clarity on a topic that continues to plague Utah law.

Send us Fan Mail Tim Davis, Deputy Commissioner, discuses the role and activities of the Office of the Great Salt Lake Commissioner. The Office is about a year old and plays a critical role in coordinating state and federal agency action on the Great Salt Lake. We discuss immediate goals for the next year, 5 year goals, and long-term planning.  Tim gives us a great overview of this very important...

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 40: From Mars and Life Itself. THIS IS A MUST LISTEN conversation with Bonnie Baxter, Professor of Biology and Director of the Great Salt Lake Institute at Westminster College. Bonnie talks about several key Institute programs, including the...

Send us Fan Mail Shania Shay Owner and Editor of the Water Report joins us to follow-up on our January discussion about hot trends and topics in the water world. We cover PFAS, Lead, and micro-plastics, the water energy nexus, aging infrastructure, and wonder what AI hallucinations are going to do to the water world!! As always a great discussion with a consummate professional.

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 43: Silver-Buckshot. Jesse Clark of Stream Landscape Architecture and Planning talks us through his many projects and the importance of urban stream health and creative storm water solutions. Great discussion about the importance of many sma...

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 21: River City. Soren Simonsen, Executive Director of the Jordan River Commission, discusses the importance of vibrant urban water ways and the Commission’s efforts to revitalize the Jordan River corridor.

Send us Fan Mail Chris Austin, publisher of Maven’s Notebook, walks us through her EXCELLENT website covering all things California water news. Maven’s Notebook is brimming with timely and comprehensive information on a number of hot topics. Chris discusses collaboration as both the rising trend and best hope for implementing creative and impactful solutions to California water issues.

Send us Fan Mail Lynn de Freitas, Executive Director of Friends of Great Salt Lake, joins us to discuss their 2024 Great Salt Lake Issues Forum – "Great Salt Lake: To Preserve and Protect in Perpetuity, How are We Doing?" A great conversation about how to gauge progress on the Lake (spoiler we have made a lot of progress) and critical steps the State of Utah is taking to tackle this chal...

Send us Fan Mail Jon Parry, Assistant Manager for Weber Basin Water Conservancy District, joins us to discuss the many benefits of their solar panel demonstration project over the Layton Canal. This project is so cool on so many levels and has some serious potential for scalability win-win-wins all over the place. Great discussion about an exciting development in Utah.

Send us Fan Mail Christopher Link, Founder, joins us to discuss his HDH Desalination Technology and his HALO Team’s participation in Elon Musk’s X-Prize Competition. Do not miss this conversation! So many interesting and innovative ideas occurring about how to incentivize useful water tech and desalination processes. I learned a ton and am excited to share Chris’s work with our listeners.

Send us Fan Mail Robert Walsh of Australian Water Life joins us to discuss the importance of micro-invertebrates in our fresh water system. Great discussion that reaches back into our 7th grade taxonomy skills and understanding the real world impacts of overlooking these little creatures. A very informative and needed science peak into water system. Check out images and more at http://www.australi...

Send us Fan Mail Justin Scott-Coe, General Manager of Monte-Vista Water District, joins us to discuss his new Podcast and collaboration with Maven’s Notebook - the Water Shelf. The Water Shelf is the just the place for that certain co-hort of water lovers and book lovers. Justin talks us through the top 5 of his top 20 water books and we scheme future episodes: Western-Water Lit; Dystopian Future...

Send us Fan Mail Marcelle Shoop – Executive Director, and Adam Wickline of the Great Salt Lake Watershed Enhancement Trust join us to talk about the Trust’s mission to protect and preserve water for the Great Salt Lake. We discuss their water transactions program, their wetland improvement program, and the associated distribution improvements and water management benefits these activities are brin...