Chandler Rosenburg, Great Salt Lake Policy Associate at Stewardship Utah, joins us to discuss her role and to talk us through how policy ideas go through the sausage-making of becoming law.

Parker Cardwell, Head of Operations at Rainmaker Technology Corporation, joins us to talk about their drone based cloud seeding enterprise. This is the third cloud seeding discussion on Ripple Effect and each time we learn something new about t...

Isabellah Von Trapp, Senior Hydrologist, and Andrew Austreng, Principle Hydrologist, join us from Geosyntec Consultants to discuss the world of geothermal heat pumps. Geothermal is a hot topic buzzword in the water and energy worlds, and we div...

Matthew Fienup, CEO and Founder of H2Omarkets.com and Executive Director of the Center for Research and Forecasting at California Lutheran University, joins us to discuss his involvement in the development of California water markets. We dive d...

Brian Iversen, Founder and Managing Partner of Cimbria Capital, joins us to discuss the world of private equity investment in water companies. Strong trepidation towards private investments is a common reaction, but Brian shows us how those fea...

Jim Good, CEO and Founder of Parkview Advisors, gives us a deep dive into the world of uniting private contractors with public municipal water systems to make water easy and solve the problems in the water utility sector. We learn all about wha...

Anna Lisonbee, President of the Utah Section of the American Society of Civil Engineers, joins us to discuss the organization's 2025 Utah Infrastructure Report Card. Just like in school, this report card gives Utah clear and concise grades base...

Mike Pearce, Business Director for EutroPHIX, joins us to discuss the company's powerful methods of fixing water quality issues across the US. Mike addresses the problem of phosphorus accumulation - which causes deadly cyanobacteria and algal b...

Amanda Strack, Water Conservation Manager for Central Utah Water Conservancy District, joins us to talk about their new 2025 Water Conservation and Efficiency Plan. Amanda walks us through the conservation activities Central has taken to date, ...

Managing Partner Davíd Pilz and Partner Amy McCoy, formerly of AMP Insights, join us to discuss their company's exciting rebrand to "Fluent Freshwater Insights". We dive deep into the company, its operational vision, and what this change signif...

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...