Introducing Audacious Water: The Podcast
Bold conversations about how we can bring about a future of water abundance for everyone
When most experts talk about water, they talk in terms of scarcity, risk, and blame — a doom-and-gloom future that we can’t escape.
Here’s what almost none of the experts talk about: the growing opportunities we now have to create a world of water abundance for everyone — even in an era of increasing climate extremes. I’m talking about storing floodwaters in aquifers for use during droughts. AI that applies fertilizer in the Mississippi Valley so precisely it could minimize the Gulf of Mexico dead zone. And finding the solutions — both tech and human — that bring drinking water access and sanitation to the 2 million people in the United States that don’t have them.
That’s why I’m thrilled to introduce Audacious Water, my new bi-weekly podcast where we’re turning that narrative of water doom-and-gloom on its head.
On Audacious Water we’ll hear from corporate leaders, activists, policymakers and other experts on the front lines of building that world of water abundance — through disruptive technologies, empowering communities, and unlikely partnerships. And we’ll pay special attention to the roles green infrastructure; equity; and urban and coastal resilience need to play in building our water future.
Audacious Water is free and available anywhere you can find podcasts, including here, and I will announce each episode here on Audacious Water’s Medium channel. The first three episodes are now live:
- Episode #1: Catherine Coleman Flowers on the hidden sanitation access problem in the rural U.S. Listen to the podcast and review the show notes and transcript.
- Episode #2: Bidtah Becker on solving the water equity crisis in Navajo Nation. Listen to the podcast and review the show notes and transcript.
- Episode #3: John Fleck on why doom-and-gloom narratives about water aren’t accurate. Listen to the podcast and review the show notes and transcript.
Please share Audacious Water with colleagues, peers, friends, and especially pessimists. I look forward to having you join us for bold conversations about how we can bring about a future of water abundance for everyone.
