Lindsey Davis, Director of Conservation at SITKA Gear, joins us to discuss the company's efforts to combine good business with philanthropic ideology. By looking beyond the bottom line, the company seeks to grow and protect the beauty of nature...

Neal Spackman, Founder and CEO of Regenerative Enterprise and Founder of RAFT Co, joins us to discuss his extremely unique and impactful work to bring life back to some of the deadest places on Earth. We discuss in detail how the extremely dry ...

We are very excited to bring a very special live episode of Ripple Effect - thank you AGWT for inviting us to be the keynote speaker at your Rocky Mountain Conference. We are joined by our frequent collaborator Brett Bovee of WestWater Research...

Lauren Foster, Environmental Manager with Neptune & Company, joins us to talk about her integrated modeling efforts to better forecast and predict water flows in the Colorado River Basin. By changing the resolution and including a variety o...

Amber Pacheco, Deputy General Manager for the Rio Grande Water Conservation District, joins us for a very special Ripple Effect episode to discuss the development of groundwater sub-districts to manage groundwater in the San Luis Valley. This d...

This week, our host Emily is in New York at the Rethinking Water 2025 conference hosted by Sciens Water. The goal of this conference is to find solutions to the most pressing water challenges in the United States. In honor of that, we are looki...

Kyle Roerink, Executive Director of the Great Basin Water Network, joins us to discuss the Network's involvement in the diverse nexus of water in the basin. We break down the big water sources in the west: Lake Mead, the Colorado River, and gro...

Quinn Kendrick, In-House Counsel for Peoples Company, joins us to talk about how Peoples is a "one-stop" shop providing a multitude of helpful services to landowners and farm operations. This is a great discussion about the niche field of agric...

Ben Masters, Founder and Filmmaker at Fin & Fur Films, Sinjin Eberle, Senior Director of Regional Communications at American Rivers, and Lenn Necefer, CEO of Natives Outdoors, join us to discuss their awesome new firm "The American Southwes...

Crystal Simons, Founder and CEO of Foresight Conservation, a national non-profit organization, joins us for a fantastic discussion about conservation easements, the various Federal programs designed to benefit the public by securing conservatio...

This week we are revisiting an earlier episode that is still highly relevant to today's water discussion. We are looking back on episode 182: Minimum System Specific Sizing Standards.Dani Zebelean, Environmental Engineer III with ...

This week we have a very special Rewind Episode. Your host Emily is joining a discussion panel about the Great Salt Lake at the UMOCA building. In preparation, we are looking back on episode 174: Art for the Great Salt Lake Part 1.

This week we are revisiting an earlier episode that is still highly relevant to today's water discussion. We are looking back on episode 110: Water Rights Valuations.Harry Seely and Brett Bovee of West Water Research join us to di...

Todd Votteler, Principal at Collaborative Water Resolution and Editor and Chief of the Talk + Water Podcast and Texas Water Journal, joins us to talk about his work creating a new Texas Water Markets report. Todd walks us through a fantastic di...

Alex Loucopoulos, and Quinten Dreesmann, of Sciens Water, a fund of Sciens Capital, join us for a return visit to Ripple Effect. In the last four years, Sciens Water has expanded beyon...

Andrew Dugan, Copywriter & Marketing Strategist in the Water Industry, joins us to discuss his niche business in helping water industry professionals and practitioners tell their story. By combining a unique experience of engineering consul...

John Kemper, Research Scientist in the Department of Watershed Sciences at Utah State University, joins us to discuss his work creating water quality models and how these models can be applied to address contemporary water issues. We often disc...

Rob Sowby, professor, working engineer, and author, joins us to discuss his new book "Terminus." Rob takes a unique approach to unpacking the complicated water management issues around the Great Salt Lake by weaving in personal stories and conv...

David Gory, Co-Founder and CEO of Airbuild, joins us to discuss Airbuild's incredibly innovative and exciting "Project Photosynthesis" pilot project in Green River, Utah. Through the power of algae, Project Photosynthesis creates multiple envir...

Emily Olsen, Vice President - Rocky Mountains for Trout Unlimited, Elizabeth Gonzalez, Operations Manager for Blue Commons, and Elijah Tangenberg of CKBlueshift, LLC, join us to talk about Blue Commons and their new ReBeaver Restoration Fund. T...

Peter Culp, Co-Founder and Managing Partner, and Mary Kelly, Co-Founder and Partner Emeritus, join us to talk about the innovative work Culp & Kelly and Blueshift are undertaking at the nexus of water, climate, finance, and natural resource...

On the eve of our 200th episode, we are looking back on a similarly epic milestone, episode 100: Klamath Drainage District. Reagan Desmond walks us through the complicated and complex world of the Klamath Basin. From Endanger...

On the eve of our 200th episode, we are looking back to the very beginning, episode 01: Massive Canals and Lots of Mint. The heart of the Bear River Canal Company system has been in operation since the late 1880s. BRCC repres...

Move over PFAS, Sara Page, Drinking Water Treatment Lead for the Utah Division of Drinking Water, joins us to discuss my new favorite(?) emerging contaminant - microplastics. This is a fascinating discussion about the very complicated and compl...

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...