Terra Verde / KPFA · Adaptation Climate Change Slow Water Water
What Water Wants
As floods and droughts intensify across the world, our dams, levees, sea walls, and reservoirs are actually making things worse. How can we build a healthier relationship with water? Earth Island Journal editor and Terra Verde host, Maureen Nandini Mitra, talks with Erica to find out.
NPR · Adaptation Slow Water Water
Cities Are Turning Flood Water Into Freshwater
As a guest on NPR’s “Science Friday,” Erica talks about sponge cities in China and the ways in which several cities around the world are adapting to be more resilient, as climate change begins to have a major effect on water systems.
Top of Mind with Julie Rose · Climate Change Slow Water Water
Slow Water in Peru
As drought grips Peru, its people are turning to nature, and ancient pre-Incan techniques to conserve water for the dry season that’s grown increasingly intense due to climate change. Erica discusses this world-leading program with Top of Mind host Julie Rose.
Sustain What? · Climate Change Slow Water Water
After Ida – Paths to Flash Flood Safety
What can be done to better warn and prepare communities everywhere for flash flooding, an intensifying threat in a human-heated climate? Erica joins a conversation on Andy Revkin’s Sustain What Live following the September 2021 flooding in New York City.
Scientific American · Adaptation Nature-Based Solutions Slow Water Water
The Radical Groundwater Storage Test
New tactics for capturing floods and surviving droughts could help communities across California and the world.
Scientific American · Adaptation Nature-Based Solutions Slow Water Water
Sponge City Revolution
Restoring natural water flows in cities can lessen the impacts of floods and droughts.
Nature · Adaptation Climate Change Nature-Based Solutions Slow Water
Fortresses of Mud
Rising seas threaten the San Francisco Bay Area, home to one of the largest estuaries in North America. But marsh-restoration efforts could hold back the high water.
Yale Environment 360 · Groundwater Slow Water Water
Water in the Bank: One Solution For Drought-Stricken California
A potential answer to California’s severe water shortages is groundwater banking, which involves creating incentives for municipalities, farmers, and other water users to percolate water down into sub-surface aquifers for later use.
Scientific American · Adaptation Climate Change Slow Water
Expanding Paved Areas Has an Outsize Effect on Urban Flooding
Researchers have finally been able to pinpoint just how much impervious surfaces exacerbate flood levels
TakePart · Adaptation Nature-Based Solutions Slow Water Water
Coca-Cola Leaves It to Beavers to Fight the Drought
The soft-drink giant is deploying the dam-building animals to replenish groundwater supplies.
TakePart · Nature-Based Solutions Slow Water Water
Hacking the Drought
With climate models predicting precipitation extremes in some of the world’s most ecologically and politically sensitive areas, scientists and engineers are coming up with creative solutions.
Ensia · Adaptation Nature-Based Solutions Slow Water Water
With Floods and Droughts Increasing, Communities Take a New Look at Storing Water Underground
Groundwater recharge is the latest wave in water security – though challenges remain.
Ensia · Adaptation Nature-Based Solutions Slow Water Water
The “One Water” Movement Is Helping the Environment and Saving Millions of Dollars
Solutions to floods, droughts, and pollution that look upstream, downstream and everywhere in between save dollars and make sense.
Ensia · Adaptation Nature-Based Solutions Slow Water Water
Cities Are Finally Treating Water as a Resource, Not a Nuisance
From Houston to Melbourne, the surprising way urban areas are dealing with water woes
Ensia · Adaptation Nature-Based Solutions Slow Water Water
As Floods Increase, Cities Like Detroit Are Looking to Green Stormwater Infrastructure:
With climate change bringing more intense storms, urban areas are looking for better ways to manage runoff.
Scientific American · Adaptation Nature-Based Solutions Slow Water Water
Ecological Detectives Hunt for San Francisco’s Vanished Waterways
Recovering “ghost creeks” from past landscapes can help protect the city’s
future amid climate chaos.
