Justin Bowen, PhD and Founder of HydroScapes Analytics, joins us to discuss his dissertation and exciting new model for spatially mapping water rights, water rights distribution systems, and watershed conditions. This model brings together wate...

Tia Cavender, CEO and Founder of Dig Deep Research, makes a return visit to discuss the status of federal funding for water projects. Tia and Dig Deep have assisted clients for over 15 years and are experts in navigating the myriad of federal g...

Ryan Mozi, Sales Director, from Air-to-Water Canada, joins us to discuss their atmospheric water harvesting generators and business model. This is a great discussion about the status of the industry, the various applications and uses for atmosp...

Laura Ault, Director, and Rick Kelson, LiDAR Master, of the Utah Geospatial Resources Center, join us to talk about the very important services the UGRC provide Utah. We have an entertaining and enlightening discussion about the importance of m...

Jeff Gittins of Smith Hartvigsen joins us again to do a legislative recap of the 2025 Utah legislative session. In sum, this is another year that builds upon prior legislation and sets out study and long-term goals for larger water thinking.&nb...

Steve Clyde, Senior Partner and Chair of the Natural Resources Practice Group at Clyde Snow & Sessions, joins us to talk about his 40 year legal career in Utah water. Steve is an esteemed Utah water lawyer responsible for shaping decades of...

Dan Adams, Senior Executive with the Langdon Group, and Celeste Carlisle; Biologist with Return to Freedom Wild Horse, Sanctuary, Educational, and Advocacy Group; Chair of the National BLM Wildhorse Working Group; and Chair of National BLM &...

Andrew Pompeo, Environmental Engineer with Division of Water Quality, and Dani Zebelean, Environmental Engineer with Division of Drinking Water, join us to discuss Utah's water reuse projects and regulatory process. Andrew and Dani provide...

Jason Brown, Vice President of Communications and Education at Envision Utah, and Bart Forsyth, Utah Water Ways Policy Advisor, join us to talk about the release of the Utah Water Values study. This extremely helpful survey, study, and review m...

Sarah Page, Drinking Water Treatment Lead for the Utah Division of Drinking Water, joins us to provide a great PFAS update. We discuss EPA's final, but not yet implemented PFAS National Primary Drinking Water Regulation, what monitoring an...

Sarah Null, Professor at Utah State University in the Department in Watershed Sciences, Nell Green Nylon, Senior Research Fellow, and Molly Bruce, Research Fellow at the Center for Law, Energy, & Environment at the UC Berkeley School of Law...

Doug Clyde, Project Manager for High Altitude Watershed Planning for Mountain Resort Consulting and former Member of Summit County Council Planning Commission, joins us to talk about the importance of watershed health and incorporating watershe...

Shaina Shay, CEO and Editor-in-Chief of the Water Report, joins us to talk about her thoughts and themes for the upcoming 2025 Water Year. We discuss 1) Climate Change Adaptation: fire, floods, and drought and the rise of nature based solutions...

Jeff Gittins, partner at the law firm of Smith Hartvigsen and author of the Utah Water Law and Water Rights Blog, joins us for a 2025 Utah Legislative Preview. After several years of non-stop action, 2025 is shaping up to be a bit slower with m...

Brett Bovee of Westwater Resources joins your host Emily Lewis to discuss the Utah Water Marketing Strategies Project. For the last 4 years Brett and Emily have been working with a Project Management Team of Clyde Snow, Westwater, HDR Engineeri...

Brian Steed - Executive Director, Anna McEntire - Managing Director, and Stephanie Frohman - Associate Director, join us to discuss the purpose and mission of the Institute. The Institute is an exciting new(ish) effort to best use the fantastic...

Dani Zebelean, Environmental Engineer III with the Utah Division of Drinking Water, joins us to discuss Minimum System Specific Sizing Standards. We discuss how Utah is working to get a better understanding of its water user by moving from a ba...

Robyn Grimm, Chief Executive Officer & President of the California Water Data Consortium, joins us to discuss the Consortium and its very cool mission. As a public/private collaborative non-profit, the Consortium makes the most of Californi...

Laney Meeker, Programs Supervisor for the Statewide Planning Section of the Arizona Department of Water Resources, and Christian Fauser, Western Water Policy Associate for the Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership, join us to talk about s...

Jonathan Jennings, Meteorologist and Cloud Seeding Coordinator for the Division of Water Resources, joins us to discuss Utah’s expanded and improved cloud seeding program. This is a great discussion about what cloud seeding is, what Utah’s goal...

Joseph Blackman, Founder of Vitendo Training Solutions and Host of the Public Works Podcast, joins us to talk about his niche business of creating custom training videos for utilities. Joseph has hit on a great solution meeting a real need of u...

Stephanie Santell, Senior Advisor in EPA’s Policy Office and Chair of the Resilient Infrastructure Work Group on Climate, joins us to discuss EPA’s new Climate Resilience and Adaptation Funding Toolbox (CRAFT) and so much more. This discussion ...

TJ Budge of Racine & Olson joins us to give a fantastic update on the 2015 Idaho Groundwater Pumpers Association (IGWA) Settlement Agreement. The 2015 Settlement Agreement adopted an innovative conjunctive management program of balancing se...

Marian Rice joins us to talk about the many hats she wears and several exciting programs at the University of Utah. Marian sits as the:  Associate Director of Energy Futures Engine; Associate Director of Peak Water Sustainability Engine; the Le...

Andrew Shaw, Wake the Great Salt Lake Coordinator for the Salt Lake City Arts Council and Kellie Bornhoft, Artist, Professor, and Grant Recipient, join us to talk about the Wake the Great Salt Lake Art Project and Kellie’s “By A Thread” art ins...