Season 2/Episode 3: Kari Vigerstol on NGOs & Corporate Water Stewardship
John Sabo 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.
Season 2/Episode 2: Todd Reeve on Corporate Water Stewardship Beyond the Fence Line
Todd Reeve, CEO of the Bonneville Water Foundation, tells John Sabo about how corporations collaborate (and don't) on water stewardship beyond their own fence lines.
Season 2/Episode 1: Nick Martin on Corporate Water Stewardship Within the Four Walls
Nick Martin of the Antea Group and the Beverage Industry Environmental Roundtable talks with John Sabo about corporate water stewardship inside the company's four walls.
Episode 6: Melody Wright on The Water Access Gap in US Cities
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.
Episode 5: Michael Deane on Why Forests Are Water Infrastructure
The chief of the US EPA’s Clean Water State Revolving Fund on wildfires and watersheds, why we need to think about forests as water infrastructure and how to address agricultural pollution at a river basin scale.
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 3: John Fleck — Busting Water Myths & Apocalyptic Water Narratives
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.
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.