Audacious Water with John Sabo
Episodes
Why the U.S. Needs a New National Water Strategy with Dr. Newsha Ajami and Dr. Martin Doyle (Part 2)
02 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In the second half of John Sabo’s conversation with Dr. Newsha Ajami and Dr. Martin Doyle, the discussion shifts from the 1951 national water plan t...
Why the U.S. Needs a New National Water Strategy with Dr. Newsha Ajami and Dr. Martin Doyle (Part 1)
18 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
It’s been 75 years since the United States released its first and only national water strategy. In this episode, John talks with Dr. Newsha Ajami of...
Season 5 Trailer: Rethinking Water for the Next 75 Years
05 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In Season 5 of Audacious Water, host John Sabo asks: Why doesn’t the United States have a modern national water strategy? What would a new one look...
The Five Transformations, and What Gives Me Hope
27 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this special bonus episode, John Sabo looks back at the conversations with leading experts in Season 4. Each guest joined him to explore one of the...
Mary Hayden: Water, Risk, and the Human Side of Vector-Borne Disease
08 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Mary Hayden, a medical anthropologist and Research Professor with the Lyda Hill Institute for Human Resilience at the University of Colorado in C...
Dawn Wesson: The Growing Threat of Mosquito-Borne Diseases in a Changing Climate
25 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Dawn Wesson, Associate Professor at Tulane University’s School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, joins John to explore how climate change ...
Charles Allen: How Communities Designed Their Future in Post-Katrina New Orleans
11 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Charles Allen, Engagement Director for the Audubon Delta unit of the National Audubon Society and co-founder of the Lower 9th Ward Center for Sustaina...
Marshall Shepherd: The Climate Science Behind Stronger Tropical Storms
21 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Marshall Shepherd, Director of the Atmospheric Sciences Program at the University of Georgia, joins John to discuss the fourth transformation: how...
Tyler Antrup: Green Infrastructure and Climate Adaptation in Coastal Cities
07 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Tyler Antrup, an urban planner focused on climate adaptation and water management, a professor at Tulane School of Architecture, and a member of the S...
Allison Lassiter: Sea Level Rise and the Hidden Threat of Saltwater Intrusion
03 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Allison Lassiter, Assistant Professor in City and Regional Planning at the University of Pennsylvania, joins John to discuss one of the hidden dan...
Meredith McInturff: Managing Public Health in Extreme Heat
19 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Meredith McInturff, manager of the Public Health Emergencies and Environmental Health Unit at the New Orleans Health Department, joins John to discuss...
Jesse Keenan: Climate Migration and the Impacts of Extreme Heat on U.S. Cities
05 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Jesse Keenan, the Favrot II Associate Professor of Sustainable Real Estate and Urban Planning and the Founding Director of the Center for Climate Chan...
Brian Smoliak: Adapting Agriculture for a Drier Future
22 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Audacious Water, host John Sabo continues the conversation on the first transformation —the deserts of the west moving eastward—...
Jonathan Overpeck: Aridification and a Drier Future for the Mississippi River Basin
08 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, John Sabo speaks with Jonathan Overpeck, a renowned climate scientist and Dean for the School for Environment and Sustainability at t...
Introducing Season 4: The Five Transformations
24 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In Season 4 of Audacious Water, host John Sabo dives into how climate change is reshaping the Mississippi River Basin. He'll explore five different tr...
A Road Trip to the Mississippi Headwaters
15 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this special bonus episode, John and his daughter Lilly take a road trip from the mouth of the Mississippi River to the headwaters to get to know t...
Sönke Dangendorf and Torbjörn Törnqvist: Sea Level Rise and Coastal Restoration
07 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Tulane professors Torbjörn (Tor) Törnqvist, a geologist, and Sönke Dangendorf, a coastal engineer and physical oceanographer, join John to talk abo...
Richard Seager: The 100th Meridian and Climate Change
26 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Richard Seager, a climate scientist and the Palisades Geophysical Institute/Lamont Research Professor at Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia ...
Jay Famiglietti: Groundwater, adaptation, and monitoring water from the sky
24 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Jay Famiglietti, a hydrologist and a Global Futures Professor in the School of Sustainability at Arizona State University, joins John to talk about gr...
Cash Daniels: The Conservation Kid
26 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Cash Daniels is a 13-year-old from Chattanooga, Tennessee, who has been cleaning up rivers since he was just seven years old and cofounded the kid-run...
Nancy Rabalais: A Deep Dive into the Dead Zone
29 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Nancy Rabalais, Professor and Shell Endowed Chair in Oceanography and Wetland Studies at Louisiana State University and the lead scientist on the rece...
Ed Clark: Harmonizing hydrology to better predict water
13 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Ed Clark, Director of NOAA’s National Water Center and the Deputy Director of the National Weather Service’s Office of Water Prediction, talks wit...
Jessica Dandridge: Water justice and a thriving New Orleans
25 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Can New Orleans thrive with water? Jessica Dandridge, Executive Director of The Water Collaborative in New Orleans, talks with John about what water j...
Lisa Schulte Moore: Reducing Nutrient Runoff from Agriculture
22 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Phosphorus and nitrogen are critical for growing food but can be dangerous when they enter our waterways as runoff. Lisa Schulte Moore, a landscape ec...
Audacious Water Season 3 - The Future of the Mississippi
20 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The Mississippi river is basically the aorta of the United States, pumping out globally crucial agriculture and commerce to the world. In this new se...
Thomas LaVeist: Climate Change, Water, and Health
24 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Thomas LaVeist, public health expert and Dean of the School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine at Tulane University, talks with John about how cli...
Morgan Snyder, Part 2: The Future of Water, from Fire to the Gulf Dead Zone
12 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
John Sabo continues his conversation on the future of water with Morgan Snyder of the Walton Family Foundation, covering aquifers for storage, Califor...
Morgan Snyder, Part 1: The Future of the Colorado River
30 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In the first of a two-part conversation, John Sabo talks with Morgan Snyder, senior program officer in the Walton Family Foundation's Environment Prog...
Todd Bridges: What a US Natural Infrastructure Strategy Should Look Like
25 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
What should a US natural infrastructure strategy look like? John talks with Todd Bridges, the US Army Corps of Engineers' senior research scientist fo...
Corporate Water Stewardship 4: Glen Low on the Future
29 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In the final part of our corporate water stewardship series, Glen Low of The Earth Genome talks with John about science-based targets, metrics and the...
Corporate Water Stewardship 3: Kari Vigerstol & the Role of NGOs
09 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
John talks with The Nature Conservancy's Kari Vigerstol about the role NGOs have made in changing how corporations think about water stewardship & how...
Corporate Water Stewardship 2: Todd Reeve on Beyond the Fence Line
24 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Todd Reeve, CEO of the Bonneville Water Foundation, tells John about how corporations collaborate (and don't) on water stewardship beyond their own fe...
Corporate Water Stewardship 1: Nick Martin on Inside the Four Walls
23 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In the first in a four-part series on corporate water stewardship, Nick Martin of the Antea Group and the Beverage Industry Environmental Roundtable t...
Melody Wright: The Water Access Gap in US Cities
21 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Melody Wright, owner and principal of Say/Do Strategies and a former Philadelphia city official, tells John what lack of affordable access looks like ...
Michael Deane: Why Forests Are Water Infrastructure
26 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The chief of the US EPA's Clean Water State Revolving Fund talks with John about wildfires and watersheds, why we need to think about forests as water...
Amy Lesen: Hurricanes & the Vulnerabilities of Louisiana's BIPOC Coastal Communities
16 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The Dillard and Tulane University professor talks about her work with BIPOC communities along the Louisiana Gulf Coast, their vulnerabilities to hurri...
John Fleck: Busting Water Myths & Apocalyptic Water Narratives
29 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The longtime Albuquerque Journal columnist and now University of New Mexico professor talks with John about the top water myths, why journalism about ...
Bidtah Becker: How Water is Different on the Navajo Reservation
29 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Becker, a citizen of the Navajo Nation and an associate attorney for the Navajo Tribal Utility Authority, tells John about the four buckets of water a...
Catherine Coleman Flowers: America's Water & Sanitation Inequity
29 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The 2020 MacArthur Award winner talks with John about the lack of access to drinking water and sanitation in the United States, a problem that impacts...