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

The Dillard and Tulane University professor talks about her work with BIPOC communities along the Louisiana Gulf Coast, their vulnerabilities to hurricanes and how she manages the traditional tensions between researcher objectivity and being part of a community.

The longtime Albuquerque Journal columnist and now University of New Mexico professor talks with John about the top water myths, why journalism about water is so gloomy, and what the Colorado River needs now.

Becker, a citizen of the Navajo Nation and an associate attorney for the Navajo Tribal Utility Authority, tells John about the four buckets of water access for the Navajo Nation, why COVID-19 might present an opportunity to improve water equity for Native Americans, and why she takes a values vs. a solutions focus to water issues.

The 2020 MacArthur Award winner talks with John about the lack of access to drinking water and sanitation in the United States, a problem that impacts millions and that Catherine argues demands a new solution that works in rural contexts.