Season 3/Episode 2: Jessica Dandridge: Water Justice and a Thriving New Orleans
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.
Episode 4: Amy Lesen on Hurricanes & the Vulnerabilities of Louisiana’s BIPOC Coastal Communities
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.
Episode 2: Bidtah Becker — How Water is Different on the Navajo Reservation
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.
Episode 1: Catherine Coleman Flowers — America’s Water & Sanitation Inequity
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.