Audacious Water with John Sabo

The podcast that seeks opportunities to create global water abundance and equity for everyone.
Mar 26th, 2024 | 35:57

Richard Seager: The 100th Meridian and Climate Change

Richard Seager, a climate scientist and the Palisades Geophysical Institute/Lamont Research Professor at Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia…
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Oct 24th, 2023 | 38:46

Jay Famiglietti: Groundwater, adaptation, and monitoring water from the sky

Jay Famiglietti, a hydrologist and a Global Futures Professor in the School of Sustainability at Arizona State University, joins John to talk about gr…
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Sep 26th, 2023 | 29:14

Cash Daniels: The Conservation Kid

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…
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Aug 29th, 2023 | 45:48

Nancy Rabalais: A Deep Dive into the Dead Zone

Nancy Rabalais, Professor and Shell Endowed Chair in Oceanography and Wetland Studies at Louisiana State University and the lead scientist on the rece…
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Jun 13th, 2023 | 47:54

Ed Clark: Harmonizing hydrology to better predict water

Ed Clark, Director of NOAA’s National Water Center and the Deputy Director of the National Weather Service’s Office of Water Prediction, talks with Jo…
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Apr 25th, 2023 | 45:57

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 j…
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Mar 22nd, 2023 | 48:55

Lisa Schulte Moore: Reducing Nutrient Runoff from Agriculture

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…
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Mar 20th, 2023 | 00:58

Audacious Water Season 3 - The Future of the Mississippi

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…
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Jan 24th, 2023 | 32:26

Thomas LaVeist: Climate Change, Water, and Health

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…
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Dec 12th, 2022 | 47:49

Morgan Snyder, Part 2: The Future of Water, from Fire to the Gulf Dead Zone

John Sabo continues his conversation on the future of water with Morgan Snyder of the Walton Family Foundation, covering aquifers for storage, Califor…
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Nov 30th, 2022 | 32:15

Morgan Snyder, Part 1: The Future of the Colorado River

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…
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Oct 25th, 2022 | 51:42

Todd Bridges: What a US Natural Infrastructure Strategy Should Look Like

What should a US natural infrastructure strategy look like? John talks with Todd Bridges, the US Army Corps of Engineers' senior research scientist fo…
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Sep 29th, 2022 | 19:10

Corporate Water Stewardship 4: Glen Low on the Future

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…
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Sep 9th, 2022 | 21:22

Corporate Water Stewardship 3: Kari Vigerstol & the Role of NGOs

John talks with The Nature Conservancy's Kari Vigerstol about the role NGOs have made in changing how corporations think about water stewardship & how…
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Aug 24th, 2022 | 27:04

Corporate Water Stewardship 2: Todd Reeve on Beyond the Fence Line

Todd Reeve, CEO of the Bonneville Water Foundation, tells John about how corporations collaborate (and don't) on water stewardship beyond their own fe…
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Aug 23rd, 2022 | 13:56

Corporate Water Stewardship 1: Nick Martin on Inside the Four Walls

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…
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Apr 21st, 2022 | 22:59

Melody Wright: The Water Access Gap in US Cities

Melody Wright, owner and principal of Say/Do Strategies and a former Philadelphia city official, tells John what lack of affordable access looks like…
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Jan 26th, 2022 | 31:06

Michael Deane: Why Forests Are Water Infrastructure

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…
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Dec 16th, 2021 | 37:32

Amy Lesen: Hurricanes & the Vulnerabilities of Louisiana's BIPOC Coastal Communities

The Dillard and Tulane University professor talks about her work with BIPOC communities along the Louisiana Gulf Coast, their vulnerabilities to hurri…
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Nov 29th, 2021 | 35:36

John Fleck: Busting Water Myths & Apocalyptic Water Narratives

The longtime Albuquerque Journal columnist and now University of New Mexico professor talks with John about the top water myths, why journalism about…
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Nov 29th, 2021 | 34:05

Bidtah Becker: How Water is Different on the Navajo Reservation

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…
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Nov 29th, 2021 | 34:53

Catherine Coleman Flowers: America's Water & Sanitation Inequity

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…
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