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Sea levels are rising not just due to melting ice. Pumping groundwater and rushing surface water off the land is a significant contributor. Recharging depleted aquifers via #slowwater projects could slow the rate of sea-level rise by as much as half, says Dr. Warren Wood. https://rdcu.be/d5ouG

Mr. Sponge City, Kongjian Yu, makes cities porous to soften floods & droughts. I told his story, part of the global #slowwater movement, in my book "Water Always Wins." Now we & Dr. Warren Wood have a Comment in Nature Water on how to help stabilize the climate: a Sponge Planet. @springernature https://rdcu.be/d5ouG

Thank you, Alan Shapiro, for invoking #slowwater and "Water Always Wins" in this excellent op/ed in Corporate Knights that gives an overview of Canada's current problems with #water and their evolving relationship. https://www.corporateknights.com/category-climate/floods-droughts-water-green-infrastructure/

I'll be talking about British Columbia's drought and what we can do about it at 12:20 Pacific on BC Today, airing on CBC. Please tune in! #slowwater

Fear of floods -- a big cause of which is our built infrastructure -- leads to wasting water and scarcity in the dry season. All over the world. Big thanks to Crawford Killian and @thetyee for this review of "Water Always Wins" and #slowwater. https://thetyee.ca/Culture/2024/02/06/Water-Always-Wins-Book/

Fear of floods -- a big cause of which is our built infrastructure -- leads to wasting water and scarcity in the dry season. All over the world. Big thanks to @Crof and @TheTyee for this review of "Water Always Wins" and #slowwater. https://thetyee.ca/Culture/2024/02/06/Water-Always-Wins-Book/

I was honored to give the keynote at Colorado Water Congress last week. Engineers, tribal citizens, city managers, ranchers, farmers, water utilities listened to "Water Always Wins"' message of #slowwater. #water management orgs seem open to change; they keep inviting me.

@HampshireKarin I've not heard the term "water meadows" -- but that's exactly what they are. Is that term UK-wide? Or regional? I wrote about meadows as a #slowwater habitat in my book, "Water Always Wins."

@albertcardona You might also like my book, "Water Always Wins." Stories about people and #slowwater

@egies Read this article on water management yesterday and was reminded of the book "Wilding", where this was discussed with examples of villages that had restored watershed areas upstream and saw the effects. But as it happens, heroic work building up water barriers makes the news and is seen as better than slow, nature restoration work that prevents the problem altogether to begin with.

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“We need land, upstream of flood risk areas, to hold on to rainwater for longer and release it gradually into our rivers following storm events, to reduce peak flows … We need natural flood management delivered at scale" #slowwater by @sandralaville https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/jan/27/we-cant-engineer-our-way-out-of-this-how-to-protect-flood-hit-severn-valley?utm_term=65b60987c99364b8a61c8c381b74e97f&utm_campaign=GuardianTodayUK&utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&CMP=GTUK_email

This conversation w/Alpha Lo on his Climate Water Project podcast runs deep; it's among the best I've done. Like me, Alpha is puzzling out water's many escapades; we've been comparing notes along the way. His Substack Climate Water Project, is excellent, and well annotated w/scientific studies. #slowwater https://climatewaterproject.substack.com/p/slowing-our-waters-erica-gies-interview

Speaking on #slowwater and "Water Always Wins" at Filoli in the Bay Area was really special! From hundreds-years-old oak trees, to family and friends attending, to the place's incredible library, it was a treat!

#slowwater makes a headline in an article that reads rather like AI. Interesting. https://bnnbreaking.com/world/china/resilient-city-planning-the-slow-water-approach-in-chongqing-city/

Big thanks to The Nature Conservancy, Felicia Marcus and Tom D'haeyer for invitations to speak on #slowwater at UN Water in New York in March! It was an amazing opportunity to meet water leaders from around the world, including Brook Thompson and Boris Ochoa-Tocachi, the latter featured in Ch 6 of "Water Always Wins. And a shout-out to the East River!

Continuing my thanks for an amazing year for "Water Always Wins," in which I spoke about #slowwater to many #water decision makers. In March I spoke to Illinois Floodplain and Stormwater Management in Chicago AND got to finally meet my editor and publicist at University of Chicago Press.

Thankful for amazing year w/"Water Always Wins" and invitations to give keynotes on #slowwater across N.America. Some waters & people I met: @Eco_Farm near Monterey, Salinas River, Pacific Ocean. Talking floodplains for fish w/biologist Jacob Katz & paleo valleys w/hydrogeologist Graham Fogg.

Yes, DC is built on a swamp. Like many cities. We've taken so much space from water, but "Water Always Wins." Learn how people in the global #slowwater movement are fixing this development problem by reading my book. (http://slowwater.world) https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/interactive/2023/dc-low-lying-city-flood-risks/

Thank you to Lou Hamilton for having me on her great podcast Brave New Girls to talk about how we can use #SlowWater techniques to adapt to bigger floods and droughts! Plus Girl stuff! https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/go-with-the-flow-with-author-erica-gies/id1462548683?i=1000632389747

“Water goes where it wants to go. We think that we can control it, but that is an illusion.” Erica Gies – Water Always Wins: Thriving in an Age of Drought and Deluge #SlowWater
https://thetyee.ca/Culture/2023/09/25/Why-We-Need-Slow-Water-Movement/ @thetyee

The Tyee: Why We Need a ‘Slow Water’ Movement https://thetyee.ca/Culture/2023/09/25/Why-We-Need-Slow-Water-Movement/ #bcnews #TheTyee - via @[email protected] #WaterAlwaysWins:ThrivinginanAgeofDroughtandDeluge #LassenVolcanicNationalPark #FraserValleyfloodplain #HarveyS.Southamlecture #climatechangeandwater #UniversityofVictoria #DixiefireCalifornia #forestfiresandwater #sociohydrology #waterscarcity #sealevelrise #watercycle #BCdrought #EricaGies #SlowWater

Really interesting short doc by ABC News #AustralianStory about Peter Andrews' natural sequence farming (aka #SlowWater) and how he and neighbors throughout the watershed rehydrated the land. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4OBcRHX1Bc&list=LL&index=32&t=732s

It was an honor to speak with Carol Browner, former head of the EPA; Joone Kim-Lopez, general manager of the Moulton Niguel Water District in Southern California; and David Lynch, CEO of Klir at an event hosted by Klir at the kick-off of the American Waterworks Association conference #ACE23 in Toronto on Monday. "Water Always Wins: Thriving in an age of drought and deluge." #slowwater

It was an honor to speak with Carol Browner, former head of the EPA; Joone Kim-Lopez, general manager of the Moulton Niguel Water District in Southern California; and David Lynch, CEO of Klir at an event hosted by Klir at the kick-off of the American Waterworks Association conference #ACE23 in Toronto on Monday. "Water Always Wins: Thriving in an age of drought and deluge." #slowwater

The #water / #energy nexus and #slowwater feature big in this great discussion with Tucker Perkins on the Path to Zero podcast. Special thanks to producer Russ Rhea https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/climate-change-water-resilience-with-journalist-erica/id1515782219?i=1000613011050

Good article about #slowwater in Los Angeles by Oliver Wainwright for The Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2023/feb/27/parched-eco-architecture-los-angeles-megadrought-water-capturing-parks?utm_term=63fd8a542345354292fc706c72631235&utm_campaign=GuardianTodayUK&utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&CMP=GTUK_email

Thanks very much to Amanpour & Co. on PBS and @Hari for the chance to share what I learned while reporting "Water Always Wins." The #SlowWater movement is about changing our relationship with water and thereby reducing impacts from drought and flood. Also: healthy groundwater hydrates plants, which transpire, seeding local rain.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JngBCpxCxtc&t=1s

Excellent conversation by Judith Schwartz w/scientists Anastassia Makarieva & Antonio Nobre for @mongabay about the critical role of forests in fostering rain, the "biotic pump." #slowwater

https://news.mongabay.com/2023/02/forest-modeling-misses-the-water-for-the-carbon-qa-with-antonio-nobre-anastassia-makarieva/