Climate Water Project
Episodes
The big groundwater crisis - food, water, pollution, and social unrest : John Cherry
14 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
John Cherry won the Stockholm Water Prize, known as the ‘Nobel’ of water, which is awarded in conjunction with the Royal Swedish Academy of Scienc...
The planetary boundaries of green water : Lan Wang-Erlandsson
12 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Lan Wang-Erlandsson is a researcher studying moisture recycling aka small water cycle. She focuses on the large-scale interactions between land, water...
The Forest-Water Connection : ecologist Douglas Sheil
24 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Douglas Sheil is an ecologist at Wageningen University in the Netherlands. He has worked on questions of how forests affect watersheds, how to restore...
Making the map of the small water cycle : Ruud van der Ent
02 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. van der Ent is a hydrologist who made a global map of the small water cycle, showing what percentage of the evapotranspiration turns back into rai...
'Our Blue World' documentary : Paul O'Callaghan
19 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A wonderful new documentary, Our Blue World, is out, and it offers a panoramic exploration of how communities across the globe are learning to live in...
Putting rocks into rivers to lessen drought-fire-flood : Laura Norman, physical scientist
13 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Laura Norman is a physical scientist with the USGS. Doing hydrological modelling of slow water. https://climatewaterproject.substack.com/p/putting-roc...
Natural Sequence Farming : Stuart Andrews
12 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The five principles of Natural Sequence Farming (NSF) are:1) Slow the Flow: Emphasizing the importance of slowing down water flow to allow infiltratio...
The Art of Water : Charlotte Qin
30 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Charlotte Qin in an artist of water. She paints the fluid flow of water in its different forms, and she does reciprocal performances about water, wher...
Plants drink water from the air: hydrologist Sieger Burger interview
28 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this interview, we talk about a wide range of topics in hydrology, including how plants drink water from the air in a process called foliar water u...
The Water Solution - A plan to lessen LA & California fires : with Didi Pershouse
21 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Rehydrating Los Angeles and its surrounding areas can help lessen fires. For more see climatewaterproject.substack.com
How can we restore bioregions? Willem Ferwerda
10 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A participatory approach to restore bioregions. Commonland is an organization that helps facilitate multistakeholders to come together to look at how ...
Absorbing rains to bring landscapes back to life : Neal Spackman
05 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Neal Spackman discusses his project that restored desert lands in Saudi Arabia, his work with the Great Green Wall of Africa, and eco and water restor...
Regenerating a farm and a semi-arid region : Silvia Quarta
21 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
La Junquera is a farm on a windswept plateau in southeastern Spain. www.lajunquera.com/ . Its part of a collective of farms and businesses called Alve...
Regenerative tourism and regenerative water: Anna Pollock
14 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Anna Pollock has played a significant role in launching the regenerative tourism movement. For more info see https://climatewaterproject.substack.com/...
The Joy of Restoring Water Cycles : Nick Steiner
27 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Nick Steiner is a water management consultant at PermaNick , and works at Water Stories, which trains people in the ways of water management. For the ...
Investing in water and regenerative agriculture : Koen van Seijen
07 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Koen van Seijen is the host of the "Investing in regenerative agriculture and food" podcast, and also manager at Toniic, an impact investment ...
Beaverland - Leila Philip
19 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Beavers a keystone species. Bringing them back can help us restore wetlands, rivers, biodiversity, and climate. For article https://climatewaterprojec...
Maladaptations in the time of water crisis : Robert Miller
12 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Stephen Robert Miller is the author of "Over the Seawall", where he looks at the unintended consequences of our water infrastructures, and whe...
Slowing our waters : Erica Gies
21 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
An interview with Erica Gies, author of "Water Always Wins" and writer for New York Times, National Geographic, Scientific American and Nature...
Bread and Museums : A dialog with Didi Pershouse
14 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
From restoring peoples health to restoring the earth health, Didi Pershouse, brings her sweetness and wisdom to help heal humans and Gaia. She is the ...
Halting our drought-fire-flood path to desertification: Zach Weiss
04 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Zach Weiss is a land and water manager that helps restore the water cycle on our land. He also teaches a course to train people in water restoration. ...
India's Regenerative Water Movement : Andrew Millison
17 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Andrew Millison is one of the world's most known permaculture teachers. He travelled to India to document what he calls the worlds largest permacu...
How to turn deserts into grasslands : Rodger Savory
30 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Rodger Savory is an ecologist, land manager, and ranch owner who worked in his Holistic Management, the ecorestoration movement his dad Alan Savory st...
Animals are helping our water cycle : Judith Schwartz
12 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Judith Schwartz, author of "Water in Plain Sight" joins us to discuss how animals affect the water cycle.Her website is judithschwartz.comOur ...
Beavers, biology, and slow water : Brock Dolman
08 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Brock Dolman is a conservation biologist and permaculture teacher who coined the phrase "Slow it, sink it, spread it" and helped co-found the ...
The Water Tale : a rap song
31 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Teisho and Alpha rap about the water cycle.For more info : https:climatewaterproject.substack.comwww.instagram.com/climatewaterprojectIf you would lik...
Charles Eisenstein: Water and the Living Earth
17 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Charles Eisenstein is the author of "Climate", "Ascent of humanity", "The more beautiful world that we know". He discusses the...
Biotic pump -how forests create rain :Anastasia Makarieva
03 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Forests evapotranspire water vapor. When that vapor condenses to form clouds it creates a lessening of pressure which can then attract more moisture f...
Regreening the Sinai : Ties van der Hoeven
30 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
An ambitious project to regreen the Sinai desert in Egypt is underway. It involves 1) restoring Lake Bardawil at the northern tip of the Sinai 2) turn...
Communities can protect themselves against floods and droughts : Minni Jain
26 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Minni Jain is the founder of the Flow Partnership, an organization that has helped thousands of communities in India and Britain protect themselves ag...
How to replenish our groundwater : Helen Dahlke
26 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Professor Helen Dahlke, of the University of California of Davis, has been leading the (re)charge to replenish California’s groundwaters. She has te...
How forests increase rain : Francina Dominguez
26 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Francina Dominguez, a hydroclimatologist at the University of Illinois has been figuring out where our rain comes from. She has been tracking water as...
Stories of our Watersheds: Elizabeth Dougherty
26 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this podcast I interview Dr. Elizabeth Dougherty, executive director of WhollyH20. She was instrumental in helping get California to pass its greyw...
Pee, Poo, Wastewater: Nik Bertulis
26 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Nik Bertulis is a permaculture water educator, a designer of integrated water systems, implementing greywater, rainwater, stormwater and wetland syste...
Natural Sequence Farming; Climate&Water : David Maher
26 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
David Maher is an experienced land management practitioner who has helped restore natural water processes on many lands. He worked with Peter Andrews ...
Green and Grey Infrastructure: Angelina Cook
14 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
How we can used nature based solutions, rather than man made infrastructures for our water.