Join us in welcoming Barbara Vlamis of AquAlliance and MaMuse. 

Our conversation focuses on the work of AquAlliance whose mission is to defend northern California waters and to challenge threats to the hydrologic health of the Northern Sacramento River watershed.
We also receive some beautiful music from MaMuse including a song called 'River Under the River' written to support this important water work. 

This episode was first recorded in November 2021

Hosted by: Kate Bunney
Produced & Edited by: Teena Pugliese
Intro music by: Mamuse 'River Run Free' - featuring Walter Strauss

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For more info go to Walking Water website 

Join us in welcoming Marcela Olivera

Our conversation focuses on themes such as water privatization, the human rights of water and ways of community building around water. Also, Marcela shares about the water wars in Cochabamba, Bolivia, and how the peoples uprising reclaimed the water from the private water company, Bechtel. 

Marcela Olivera is a water commons organizer based in Cochabamba, Bolivia. Since 2004 she has been developing and consolidating an inter-American citizens’ network on water justice named Red VIDA. She sits on the coordinating committee of the Platform for Public and Community Partnerships of The America (PAPC). Since 2019, she has been working as the regional coordinator for the Blue Planet Project.

This episode was first recorded in May 2022

Hosted by: Kate Bunney
Produced & Edited by: Teena Pugliese
Intro music by: Mamuse 'River Run Free' - featuring Walter Strauss
Photo: Jasmine Beaghler

If you feel inspired by Talking Water please consider a donation - our work relies on the community. You can donate here.
For more info go to Walking Water website 

In this important episode, Marsela Pecanac and Lejla Kusturica of ACT talk about the water situation in the Balkans and the work of ACT. 
ACT supports activists and artists in the Western Balkans by helping them rebuild their communities and by challenging systemic injustice through frontline partnerships and strategic campaigns. ACT’s nomination helped secure the 2021 Goldman Environmental Award for Europe for the Brave Women of Kruscica in Bosnia and Herzegovina in celebration of their epic river defense.

This episode was first recorded in October 2021

Hosted by: Kate Bunney
Produced & Edited by: Teena Pugliese
Intro music by: Mamuse 'River Run Free' - featuring Walter Strauss

If you feel inspired by Talking Water please consider a donation - our work relies on the community. You can donate here.
For more info go to Walking Water website 

In this deeply moving conversation, Orland Bishop and Gigi Coyle explore the essence of water and what it represents to us as human beings. 

Gigi Coyle is the co-founder of Walking Water,  and founder of Beyond Boundaries, an inter-generational pilgrimage of service and a response team for our times. She continues today as a rite of passage guide for organizations and individuals as well as a council trainer, community activist, and mentor. Gigi is now Guardian to Walking Water.

Orland Bishop is a lineage holder in African Gnosis Traditions and works at the intersection of human consciousness and societal development. He is the Founder and Executive Director of ShadeTree Multicultural Foundation in Los Angeles, California, a unique organization of social architects and entropenures devoted to creating new social forms and collaboratives for systems change. Orland is Guardian to Walking Water.

This episode was first recorded in June 2021

Hosted by: Kate Bunney
Produced & Edited by: Teena Pugliese
Intro music by: Mamuse 'River Run Free' - featuring Walter Strauss

If you feel inspired by Talking Water please consider a donation - our work relies on the community. You can donate here.
For more info go to Walking Water website 

In this episode we welcome Zachary Wise, Creator of Water Stories

Zach is the protégé of revolutionary Austrian farmer Sepp Holzer. He is the first and only person to earn a Holzer Practitioner certification directly from Sepp - through a rigorous two-year apprenticeship. After learning from Sepp, he set out to create Elemental Ecosystems, a business that provides an action-oriented process to improve clients' relationship with their landscape.

Elemental Ecosystems is an ecological development contracting and consulting company specializing in watershed restoration and ecosystem regeneration. Harvesting time and the productivity of natural systems is the guiding principle - resulting in abundant oases with the potential to last until the next ice age. Elemental Ecosystems has worked in 25 countries, on 6 continents, spanning a wide range of climates, contexts, landforms, and ecosystems.

After 10 years of doing projects for Elemental Ecosystems, Zach began to see the limits of his availability and need for water retention work at scale, and thus felt a call to share this knowledge with others. This is where Water Stories was born.

Hosted by: Kate Bunney
Produced & Edited by: Teena Pugliese
Intro music by: Mamuse 'River Run Free' - featuring Walter Strauss

If you feel inspired by Talking Water please consider a donation - our work relies on the community. You can donate here.
For more info go to Walking Water website 

Maude Barlow is a Canadian author and activist. She is the chair of the Blue Planet Project and the Washington-based Food & Water Watch. She is a Councilor with the Hamburg-based World Future Council. In 2008/2009, she served as Senior Advisor on Water to the 63rd President of the United Nations General Assembly and was a leader in the campaign to have water recognized as a human right by the UN.
In this episode of Talking Water we talk with Maude on themes such as water privatization, the human rights of water and the international defense of water.
This was recorded as a live zoom call in March 2022.

Hosted by: Kate Bunney
Produced & Edited by: Teena Pugliese
Intro music by: Mamuse 'River Run Free' - featuring Walter Strauss

If you feel inspired by Talking Water please consider a donation - our work relies on the community. You can donate here.
For more info go to Walking Water website 

Kathy Bancroft is the Tribal Historic Preservation officer and Elder of the Lone Pine Paiute-Shoshone tribe and Alan Bacock is the former water coordinator with the Big Pine Paiute Tribe. Both have been instrumental on the path of Walking Water. We will hear some of the water history of Payahuunadü (Owens Valley, Eastern Sierras, CA), what is happening currently in the valley's relationship with Los Angeles and about the vision that is held by the Paiute Shoshone, Nuumü/Newé peoples of Payahuunadü.   
This was recorded as a live zoom call in June 2021. 

Hosted by: Kate Bunney
Produced & Edited by: Teena Pugliese
Intro music by: Mamuse 'River Run Free' - featuring Walter Strauss

If you feel inspired by Talking Water please consider a donation - our work relies on the community. You can donate here.
For more info go to Walking Water website 

Gigi Coyle and Rajendra Singh share story about the importance of love in activism, and the relationship between community and the healing of water.
This was recorded as a live zoom call in February 2022.

Hosted by: Kate Bunney
Produced & Edited by: Teena Pugliese
Intro music by: Mamuse 'River Run Free' - featuring Walter Strauss

If you feel inspired by Talking Water please consider a donation - our work relies on the community. You can donate here.
For more info go to Walking Water website 

In this first inspiring episode, the Walking Water collective - Gigi Coyle, Orland Bishop, Krystyna Jurzykowski, Justine Epstein, Rina Kedem and Kate Bunney - share story about how Walking Water was born and how water has guided its way ....
This was recorded as a live zoom call in December 2021 as part of the 'In Conversation with ...' series.

Hosted by: Kate Bunney
Produced & Edited by: Teena Pugliese
Intro music by: Mamuse 'River Run Free' - featuring Walter Strauss

If you feel inspired by Talking Water please consider a donation - our work relies on the community. You can donate here.
For more info go to Walking Water website