Podcasts about water deeply

Texas+Water Editor-in-Chief, Dr. Todd Votteler, talks with Matt Weiser, who is a former contributing editor at Water Deeply and helped launch the organization as its first managing editor in June 2015. Weiser has covered environmental issues in California for 30 years as a reporter, editor and freelance writer.

Snowmelt is shrinking and runoff is coming earlier on the Upper Colorado River, source of 90 percent of the water for 40 million people. This is leading to vegetation changes, water-quality issues and other concerns. But it may be possible to operate reservoirs differently to ease some of these effects. On this episode of Deeply Talks, Water Deeply managing editor Matt Weiser talks to Bhavna Arora, hydrological scientist, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, and Jack Schmidt, professor of watershed sciences, Utah State University.

Statewide regulations and local innovations are all contributing to making water conservation a “California way of life.” Water Deeply managing editor Tara Lohan discusses California’s statewide and local conservation efforts with Cynthia Koehler, cofounder and executive director at WaterNow Alliance, and Erik Porse, a research engineer in the Office of Water Programs at California State University, Sacramento.

In 2014, California voters approved a water bond that allocated $2.7 billion to fund the public benefits of new water storage projects. The California Water Commission has been reviewing a list of potential projects and will be announcing how much funding eligible projects will receive. Will California get its first new dam in decades? Will groundwater storage projects receive a boost? And how are the “public benefits” of these projects being evaluated? Tara Lohan, Water Deeply’s managing editor, discusses these questions and more with Jay Lund, a professor of civil and environmental engineering and director of the Center for Watershed Sciences at the University of California, Davis, and Rachel Zwillinger, water policy adviser for Defenders of Wildlife.

In 2014, California voters approved a water bond that allocated $2.7 billion to fund the public benefits of new water storage projects. The California Water Commission has been reviewing a list of potential projects and will be announcing how much funding eligible projects will receive. Will California get its first new dam in decades? Will groundwater storage projects receive a boost? And how are the “public benefits” of these projects being evaluated? Tara Lohan, Water Deeply’s managing editor, discusses these questions and more with Jay Lund, a professor of civil and environmental engineering and director of the Center for Watershed Sciences at the University of California, Davis, and Rachel Zwillinger, water policy adviser for Defenders of Wildlife.

In this episode of Deeply Talks, Tara Lohan, Water Deeply’s managing editor, speaks with author and water expert Sandra Postel about her newest book, Replenish: The Virtuous Cycle of Water and Prosperity, and about today’s major water problems, and solutions.

In this episode of Deeply Talks, Tara Lohan, Water Deeply’s managing editor, speaks with author and water expert Sandra Postel about her newest book, Replenish: The Virtuous Cycle of Water and Prosperity, and about today’s major water problems, and solutions.

Tara Lohan, Water Deeply's managing editor, speaks with U.C. Davis fisheries experts Peter Moyle and John Durand about the challenges and opportunities for restoration in the California Delta and a new roadmap to get us there.

Tara Lohan, Water Deeply's managing editor, speaks with U.C. Davis fisheries experts Peter Moyle and John Durand about the challenges and opportunities for restoration in the California Delta and a new roadmap to get us there.

In this episode of Deeply Talks, Ian Evans, Water Deeply’s community editor, speaks with Tara Lohan, Water Deeply’s managing editor and John Fleck, the director of water resources at the University of New Mexico, about the status of this year’s snowpack, what that can tell us about the water year to come and how that fits with long-term climate change trends.

In this episode of Deeply Talks, Ian Evans, Water Deeply’s community editor, speaks with Tara Lohan, Water Deeply’s managing editor and John Fleck, the director of water resources at the University of New Mexico, about the status of this year’s snowpack, what that can tell us about the water year to come and how that fits with long-term climate change trends.

In this episode of Deeply Talks, Tara Lohan, Water Deeply's managing editor, speaks with Philip Bachand, a water engineer and founder of the environmental engineering firm, Bachand & Associates, Daniel Mountjoy, the director of resource stewardship at Sustainable Conservation and Don Cameron, vice president and general manager of Terranova Ranch, about recharging groundwater and the crucial role that farms can play in this important effort.

In this episode of Deeply Talks, Tara Lohan, Water Deeply's managing editor, speaks with Philip Bachand, a water engineer and founder of the environmental engineering firm, Bachand & Associates, Daniel Mountjoy, the director of resource stewardship at Sustainable Conservation and Don Cameron, vice president and general manager of Terranova Ranch, about recharging groundwater and the crucial role that farms can play in this important effort.

As California and other Western states begin to measure the (so far slowly) accumulating snowpack, we’re turning our attention to some of the biggest water issues that will be facing the region in 2018. What’s the fate of California WaterFix? Will California decide to allocate money to build its first big dam in decades? How will Western states cope with an increase in catastrophic wildfires and fund needed forest restoration? Tara Lohan, Water Deeply's managing editor, speaks with Jeffrey Mount, senior fellow with the Public Policy Institute of California, and Kimery Wiltshire, CEO and director of Carpe Diem West, about big issues to keep an eye on in 2018.

As California and other Western states begin to measure the (so far slowly) accumulating snowpack, we’re turning our attention to some of the biggest water issues that will be facing the region in 2018. What’s the fate of California WaterFix? Will California decide to allocate money to build its first big dam in decades? How will Western states cope with an increase in catastrophic wildfires and fund needed forest restoration? Tara Lohan, Water Deeply's managing editor, speaks with Jeffrey Mount, senior fellow with the Public Policy Institute of California, and Kimery Wiltshire, CEO and director of Carpe Diem West, about big issues to keep an eye on in 2018.

Tara Lohan, Water Deeply's managing editor, speaks with Kirsten James, the director of California policy and partnerships at Ceres, Lindsay Bass, the head of WWF's Corporate Water Stewardship Initiative and Marco Ugarte, the sustainability manager at MillerCoors about how water is used by food and beverage industries.

Tara Lohan, Water Deeply's managing editor, speaks with Kirsten James, the director of California policy and partnerships at Ceres, Lindsay Bass, the head of WWF's Corporate Water Stewardship Initiative and Marco Ugarte, the sustainability manager at MillerCoors about how water is used by food and beverage industries.

Effective water markets in California could help solve some of the state's water woes. So, why haven't they been widely implemented in the past, and what might a California water market look like in the future? In this episode of Deeply Talks, Tara Lohan, the managing editor of Water Deeply, discusses emerging water markets in California with Maurice Hall, the associate vice president of water for the Ecosystems Program at the Environmental Defense Fund, and Michael Kiparsky, the director of the Wheeler Water Institute at the Center for Law, Energy & the Environment at the University of California, Berkeley. For more information on water markets and water in the American West, visit www.newsdeeply.com/water and subscribe to our weekly emails.

Effective water markets in California could help solve some of the state's water woes. So, why haven't they been widely implemented in the past, and what might a California water market look like in the future? In this episode of Deeply Talks, Tara Lohan, the managing editor of Water Deeply, discusses emerging water markets in California with Maurice Hall, the associate vice president of water for the Ecosystems Program at the Environmental Defense Fund, and Michael Kiparsky, the director of the Wheeler Water Institute at the Center for Law, Energy & the Environment at the University of California, Berkeley. For more information on water markets and water in the American West, visit www.newsdeeply.com/water and subscribe to our weekly emails.

Marijuana legalization continues to gain support around the country. In just four years, five western states legalized recreational use of the drug, including California in 2016. But cannabis cultivation comes at a cost to local water. This is the playback of a 30-minute conversation led by Tara Lohan, managing editor of Water Deeply, with experts about how marijuana farms – both legal and illegal – impact California water, and how the increasing number of legal marijuana-growing operations in Southern California deal with limited water resources. For more information or water issues in California and the American West, visit www.newsdeeply.com/water and subscribe to our weekly emails.

Marijuana legalization continues to gain support around the country. In just four years, five western states legalized recreational use of the drug, including California in 2016. But cannabis cultivation comes at a cost to local water. This is the playback of a 30-minute conversation led by Tara Lohan, managing editor of Water Deeply, with experts about how marijuana farms – both legal and illegal – impact California water, and how the increasing number of legal marijuana-growing operations in Southern California deal with limited water resources. For more information or water issues in California and the American West, visit www.newsdeeply.com/water and subscribe to our weekly emails.