Richard Seager, a climate scientist and the Palisades Geophysical Institute/Lamont Research Professor at Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory, joins John to talk about changes in aridity in North America around the 100th Meridian, and how climate change is going to affect the heartland of the U.S. and the Mississippi river basin. Richard’s current work is focused on how global hydroclimate will change in the near-term future as a result of rising greenhouse gases, and how that will affect people and food systems.

Jay Famiglietti, a hydrologist and a Global Futures Professor in the School of Sustainability at Arizona State University, joins John to talk about groundwater management and the state of water in the American west. Jay has extensive experience measuring and tracking groundwater and water security issues, including using satellites to help develop advanced computer models to track how freshwater availability changes around the globe.

Cash Daniels is a 13-year-old from Chattanooga, Tennessee, who has been cleaning up rivers since he was just seven years old and cofounded the kid-run nonprofit, The Clean Up Kids. He and John talk about plastic waste in waterways and what can be done about it, how it affects human and wildlife health, and his upcoming documentary, The Conservation Kid.

Nancy Rabalais, Professor and Shell Endowed Chair in Oceanography and Wetland Studies at Louisiana State University and the lead scientist on the recent 2023 dead zone cruise, talks with John about the current state of the Gulf of Mexico dead zone, why it matters to the Gulf economy, what it might take to reverse it.

Ed Clark, Director of NOAA’s National Water Center and the Deputy Director of the National Weather Service’s Office of Water Prediction, talks with John about how data science plays a role in water forecasting, how new tools and technologies can provide better services to all communities, and how the National Water Center might help prepare the nation for the implications of climate change on human health.

Can New Orleans thrive with water? Jessica Dandridge, Executive Director of The Water Collaborative in New Orleans, talks with John about what water justice means, how to engage communities in creating solutions, and why we should think about thriving versus resilience.

Lisa Schulte Moore, a landscape ecologist, Iowa state university professor, and a 2021 MacArthur Fellow, talks with John about how Iowa agriculture practices impact the Mississippi River and how her work integrating prairie vegetation into crop fields led to real results in reducing soil erosion and nitrogen and phosphorus runoff.

Thomas LaVeist, public health expert and Dean of the School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine at Tulane University, talks with John about how climate change will impact health, especially for more vulnerable communities, and the role water will play.

In this first of a two-part interview, Morgan Snyder of the Walton Family Foundation talks with John Sabo about the future of the Colorado River.

In this first of a two-part interview, Morgan Snyder of the Walton Family Foundation talks with John Sabo about the future of the Colorado River.

What should a US natural infrastructure strategy look like? John talks with Todd Bridges, the US Army Corps of Engineers' senior research scientist for environmental science and the national lead for the Corps' Engineering with Nature Initiative.

John Sabo talks with Glen Low of The Earth Genome about the trends Glen sees that will define the future of corporate water stewardship.

John Sabo talks with The Nature Conservancy's Kari Vigerstol about the role NGOs have made in changing how corporations think about water stewardship & how that engagement has transformed NGOs.

Todd Reeve, CEO of the Bonneville Water Foundation, tells John Sabo about how corporations collaborate (and don't) on water stewardship beyond their own fence lines.

Nick Martin of the Antea Group and the Beverage Industry Environmental Roundtable talks with John Sabo about corporate water stewardship inside the company's four walls.

Melody, owner & principal of Say/Do Strategies and a former Philadelphia city official, tells John what lack of affordable access looks like in cities, why we don't understand the full extent of the problem, and how a Philadelphia program is providing a model solution for the rest of the nation.

The chief of the US EPA’s Clean Water State Revolving Fund on wildfires and watersheds, why we need to think about forests as water infrastructure and how to address agricultural pollution at a river basin scale.

Amy, a researcher & activist based in New Orleans, talks with John about how these communities have struggled under the radar months after Hurricane Ida hit them.

The director of the University of New Mexico’s Water Resources Program and author of the book “Water is for Fighting Over: and Other Myths about Water in the West” on why our narratives about water are so gloomy & what it would mean for the environment to have a seat at the table in the Colorado River Basin.

Navajo Nation native and associate attorney for the Navajo Tribal Utility Authority Bidtah Becker on how the pandemic has highlighted water inequity on the reservation and how COVID could eventually drive increased water equity for the Navajo Nation.