#SlowWater
Same slow water, same old rocks, same old Dartmoor.

Cooling down on a hot day.

#landscape #slowwater #Dartmoor
June 19, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Just 6 months!!!!
All natural #SlowWater !!!

Our post about #SlowWater
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🤯 Prepare to have your mind blown... What does six months of beaver productivity at Heal Somerset look like? Like nothing we could imagine or recognise!

Watch out for the stick from July onwards...🤪 iykyk 🦫

#BeaverLove #UKWildlife #Rewilding #EcosystemEngineers #WildlifePhotography
October 12, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Will never be the same in my lifetime. Burned up in a fire #slowwater #longexposure
March 7, 2025 at 3:16 AM
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. rdcu.be/d5ouG
To solve climate change, we need to restore our Sponge Planet
Nature Water - Climate strategies focus primarily on carbon, largely ignoring the destabilized water cycle that’s amplifying disasters and accelerating climate change. Slow Water projects can...
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January 6, 2025 at 8:23 PM
We need #slowwater #recharge to replenish declining #groundwater and also to slow sea-level rise attributed to groundwater discharge. This is indeed the Anthropocene
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. rdcu.be/d5ouG
To solve climate change, we need to restore our Sponge Planet
Nature Water - Climate strategies focus primarily on carbon, largely ignoring the destabilized water cycle that’s amplifying disasters and accelerating climate change. Slow Water projects can...
rdcu.be
January 7, 2025 at 2:18 AM
Thanks to Jared Green at The Dirt for highlighting #slowwater approaches we need to create a Sponge Planet. We can soften floods, droughts, fires, heat, and climate change itself. dirt.asla.org/2025/02/10/k...
Kongjian Yu: Water Is Key to Climate Action
We can’t forget the central role of water in climate action, argues landscape architect Kongjian Yu, FASLA, founder of Turenscape, in a new research paper published in Nature Water. “Cl…
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February 17, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Mr. Sponge City, Kongjian Yu, makes cities porous to soften floods & droughts. I told his story, part of the 🌎
#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. rdcu.be/d5ouG
To solve climate change, we need to restore our Sponge Planet
Nature Water - Climate strategies focus primarily on carbon, largely ignoring the destabilized water cycle that’s amplifying disasters and accelerating climate change. Slow Water projects can...
rdcu.be
January 2, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Good information. #Slowwater projects weren't on my info radar until now. Thank you!
January 18, 2025 at 4:35 AM
Beautiful day for some field work in Kanton Luzern scoping out some SlowWater streamgage locations. Even a dusting of snow on some of the shady sides of the hills. Have to get used to field work in the cold again!

#waterretention #agriculturalhydrology
November 20, 2024 at 4:19 PM
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.
February 5, 2024 at 7:40 PM
Nature stores water underground. There, plants can access it, helping them stay hydrated and be less flammable. It supplies water to streams and rivers in the dry season, providing year-round water, supporting many forms of life, including humans. #slowwater @wadecrowfoot.bsky.social
February 2, 2025 at 5:25 PM
In our Comment for Nature Water @springernature.bsky.social, Mr. Sponge City, Kongjian Yu, Dr. Warren Wood, and I write that the answer is to restore 🌎's #slowwater ecosystems -- floodplains, wetlands, forests, mountain meadows -- to recreate our Sponge Planet: rdcu.be/d5ouG
To solve climate change, we need to restore our Sponge Planet
Nature Water - Climate strategies focus primarily on carbon, largely ignoring the destabilized water cycle that’s amplifying disasters and accelerating climate change. Slow Water projects can...
rdcu.be
January 3, 2025 at 6:29 PM
This conversation w/Alpha Lo on his Climate Water Project podcast runs deep. Alpha is also puzzling out water's many escapades; we've been comparing notes along the way. His Substack Climate Water Project, is excellent and well annotated. #slowwater climatewaterproject.substack.com/p/slowing-ou...
January 25, 2024 at 10:02 PM
Landwirt Zumbrunn macht beim Ressourcenprojekt #SlowWater mit:
- Regenwasser vom Stalldach im Speicherbecken sammeln
- Keylines und Hecken anlegen
- Humusaufbau verbessern
Diese Massnahmen verlangsamen den Wasserabfluss und machen Böden widerstandsfähiger – gegen #Trockenheit und #Starkregen.
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August 12, 2026 at 1:40 PM
“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 www.theguardian.com/environment/...
January 29, 2024 at 5:27 PM
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!
January 24, 2024 at 9:45 PM
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.
December 26, 2023 at 6:43 PM
Thanks for the link!
Have you seen #SlowWater from @ericagies.bsky.social ?
It gives me hope!!

It looks like our only chance for survival is to put the pedal to the metal & rev up ALL LIFE around the ENTIRE PLANET.
That way, when a % of our efforts fail, the other % will survive & help sustain us!!
February 2, 2025 at 5:03 AM
Big thanks to The Nature Conservancy, Felicia Marcus and Tom D'haeyer for invitations to speak on #slowwater at UN Water in New York! Amazing opportunity to meet water leaders from everywhere, including Brook Thompson & Boris Ochoa-Tocachi, featured in Ch 6 of "Water Always Wins. And the East River!
December 27, 2023 at 6:33 PM
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. rdcu.be/d5ouG
To solve climate change, we need to restore our Sponge Planet
Nature Water - Climate strategies focus primarily on carbon, largely ignoring the destabilized water cycle that’s amplifying disasters and accelerating climate change. Slow Water projects can...
rdcu.be
January 2, 2025 at 5:49 PM
@alanshapiro.bsky.socialThank 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. www.corporateknights.com/category-cli...
To take on floods and droughts, we have to start embracing water
OPINION | Municipalities and businesses must embrace water stewardship and green infrastructure to bring water back into our landscapes
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August 23, 2024 at 5:19 PM
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.
December 22, 2023 at 1:04 AM