The Great Race Between Water Conservation and Climate Change
Image: “Watering the sky, Carbondale, Colorado” To stay ahead of climate change we’ll need to double down on water conservation in cities... Read More
Wetland Revival: Using impact investment to restore nature
This was originally published on National Geographic Conservation interests and agencies gathered along the Murray River in Australia earlier this month to... Read More
Wetland Revival: Using impact investment to restore nature
This was originally published on National Geographic Conservation interests and agencies gathered along the Murray River in Australia earlier this month to... Read More
World Water Week ~ Panel Discussion: How can we solve the competition for fresh water? – Part II
This SIWI Sofa session will explore the hypothesis that water competition can be harnessed to create incentives for positive change in the... Read More
A World Without Rivers
This was originally published on National Geographic photo by Brian Richter I was looking at a river bed And the story it... Read More
A World Without Rivers
This was originally published on National Geographic photo by Brian Richter I was looking at a river bed And the story it... Read More
Video from University of Arizona lecture
Water Sustainability Program Distinguished Speaker Series, co-sponsored by the Water Resources Research Center Thursday, March 5, 2015, University of Arizona Brian... Read More
Climate One TV: Chasing Water
Climate One TV January 2015: It is posted online at Fora.tv Broadcast January 25, 2015 on KRCB TV 22 in the Bay... Read More
A Think Tank for the Colorado River’s Future
This was originally published on National Geographic Grand Canyon photo by Brian Richter Have you ever been in a work meeting... Read More
A Think Tank for the Colorado River’s Future
This was originally published on National Geographic Grand Canyon photo by Brian Richter Have you ever been in a work meeting... Read More
Brian Interviewed on Colorado Public Radio
Here’s a transcript of the interview.
Can Desalination Help Save a Holy River?
This was originally published on National GeographicRoman bridge over the Jordan River, which forms the boundary between Israel and Jordan The Jordan... Read More
Can Desalination Help Save a Holy River?
This was originally published on National Geographic Roman bridge over the Jordan River, which forms the boundary between Israel and Jordan The... Read More
Water Markets: A New Tool for Securing Urban Water Supplies?
Originally Published in EcoLogic from the Nature Conservancy City water planners are finding it increasingly difficult to secure addi- tional water supplies... Read More
Interwiew: Brian Richter’s ‘Chasing Water’: Smarter Solutions for the Coming Water Scarcity
Originally published June 30, 2014 | by: Bob Lalasz | Nature Conservancy Blog Water shortages aren’t just for California. They might be... Read More
The Australian Approach to Water Crisis: Work With Farmers
This was originally published on National GeographicThe Murray River near Renmark, Australia. (Photograph by Brian Richter) With water crises erupting in California,... Read More
The Australian Approach to Water Crisis: Work With Farmers
This was originally published on National Geographic The Murray River near Renmark, Australia. (Photograph by Brian Richter) With water crises erupting in... Read More
Regimes and Cycles, Rhythm and Flow
Originally Published on MAY 26, 2014 | Nature Conservancy – Conservancy Talk | I very well remember the day long ago when I... Read More
Re-thinking Environmental Flows: From Allocations and Reserves to Sustainability Boundaries.
Richter, B.D. 2009. Rivers Research and Applications 25: 1-12. Download the pdf ABSTRACT: Attempts to implement environmental flows have encountered many obstacles. Many water... Read More
Tapped Out: Growing Cities in Search of the Next Oasis
Richter, B.D., D Abell, E Bacha, K Brauman, S Calos, A Cohn, C Disla, S Friedlander O’Brien, D Hodges, S Kaiser, M... Read More
To Understand Water, Learn the Math
Originally Published on March28, 2014 | National Geographic – Water Currents | OK, I’ll admit to being a bit of a geek... Read More
A Visit to India, and Hope for the World’s Water
Originally Published on January 6th, 2010 on Nature Conservancy – Conservancy Talk | I write this from western India, where I’ve traveled at... Read More
Cycles, Rhythm and Flow
Originally Published on December 20, 2010 | Nature Conservancy – Conservancy Talk | “We forget that the water cycle and the life cycle... Read More
Sense & Sustainability
Brian Richter (segment) Excerpts from a film by Michael Connolly of Anchored Minds Productions LLC
To Understand Water, Learn the Math
This was originally published on National GeographicThis map portrays the volume of water being depleted from rivers, lakes and aquifers on a... Read More
To Understand Water, Learn the Math
This was originally published on National Geographic This map portrays the volume of water being depleted from rivers, lakes and aquifers on... Read More
Short on Water? Don’t Blame it on the Rain
This was originally published on National GeographicThe Colorado River now dries up completely in the sands of its delta, breaking its fluid... Read More
Short on Water? Don’t Blame it on the Rain
This was originally published on National Geographic The Colorado River now dries up completely in the sands of its delta, breaking its... Read More
Short on Water? Don’t Blame it on the Rain
This was originally published on National GeographicThe Colorado River now dries up completely in the sands of its delta, breaking its fluid... Read More
Four Water Resolutions for a Sustainable Planet
This was originally published on National GeographicThe Salmon River in Idaho, one of the very few well-protected rivers in the lower 48... Read More
Four Water Resolutions for a Sustainable Planet
This was originally published on National GeographicThe Salmon River in Idaho, one of the very few well-protected rivers in the lower 48... Read More
Four Water Resolutions for a Sustainable Planet
This was originally published on National Geographic The Salmon River in Idaho, one of the very few well-protected rivers in the lower... Read More
Why our groundwater aquifers are heading towards bankruptcy
Originally published – August 28th, 2012, | The Gardian | To preserve groundwater aquifers at sustainable levels, and in the absence of leadership from... Read More
My Fellow Scientists: No More Chicken Little
This was originally published on National GeographicA beached ship in the dry bed of the Aral Sea — OK, we broke this... Read More
Tapped Out: How Will Cities Secure Their Water Future?
This was originally published on National GeographicHalf of all cities with populations >100,000 are located in water basins in which more than... Read More
A Christmas Present for the Colorado River
Just days before Christmas, the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation released the results of acomprehensive study of the Colorado River basin’s water situation. The... Read More
Water Privatization: Let’s Cut the Hysteria
In an editorial published this week in Nature, Frederick Kaufman, a journalism professor at the City University of New York, cries out against the perils... Read More
A River Runs Through Us (International Rivers, 2011)
A River Runs Through Us (International Rivers, 2011) A River Runs Through Us is personal and hopeful introduction to one of the... Read More