Melody, owner & 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.

Amy, a researcher & activist based in New Orleans, talks with John about how these communities have struggled under the radar months after Hurricane Ida hit them.

The director of the University of New Mexico’s Water Resources Program and author of the book “Water is for Fighting Over: and Other Myths about Water in the West” on why our narratives about water are so gloomy & what it would mean for the environment to have a seat at the table in the Colorado River Basin.

Navajo Nation native and associate attorney for the Navajo Tribal Utility Authority Bidtah Becker on how the pandemic has highlighted water inequity on the reservation and how COVID could eventually drive increased water equity for the Navajo Nation.

The 2020 MacArthur Fellow and activist on just how antiquated wastewater systems are in the rural U.S. South, why we need a new approach to the problem, and why urban water access issues get all the attention.