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Water Hub Blog
Memes and GIFs and graphics, oh my! 5 creative ways to tell your story.
How to reach different audiences using content like GIFs and memes and get creative with culture.
Groundwater: The unsung hero
It’s Groundwater Awareness Week! In this blog, we dive into the invisible water source beneath our feet.
Forecasting the year’s hottest water stories
We put on our looking glasses to predict some of the hottest themes we expect (and hope) to see covered in water media this year.
What’s up in Western water news?
We look back on the media conversation around Western water supply, safety, and access in this year’s scan of water news.
Rising Voices: New nonprofit Minnow combats the inextricable link between land, water, and justice
In this issue of the Maven’s Notebook Rising Voices column, Water Hub checks in with Javier Román-Nieves, Director of Strategic Storytelling at Minnow, about discriminatory land and water laws in California and advocating for small farmers in the Bay Area and Northern California.
Learning how to tell your organization’s story
Telling your organization’s story: A discussion on how to get noticed, be heard, and elevate your story as an organization.
Multi-solving with nature in the Colorado River Basin
Recap of our recent media briefing on Colorado River solutions that work with nature and provide multiple benefits to the watershed and communities.
Continuing the conversation on water words
Briget Arndell recaps a recent Water Hub workshop that discussed the the impact and importance of using water words that connect.
The language of One Water
Nicole Lampe reflects on her experience at the One Water Summit, and the ways the language we use to talk about water can connect or exclude.
Building Water Trust: Nuestra Casa Tackles Water Justice in the Bay Area
In this issue of the Maven’s Notebook Rising Voices column, the Water Hub checks in with Water Justice Program Coordinator at Nuestra Casa, Rosa Nelson about water equity in East Palo Alto and the Greater Bay Area.
Making Connections: Communicating Climate Change & Changing Our Ways
In this issue briefing on the impacts and health concerns of toxic algae, we also dig into the climate connection and available solutions.
Rising Voices: Dam Removal and the Future of Algal Blooms
In this issue briefing on the impacts and health concerns of toxic algae, we also dig into the climate connection and available solutions.
Issue briefing: Toxic algae
In this issue briefing on the impacts and health concerns of toxic algae, we also dig into the climate connection and available solutions.
Time to break out the podium?
Recap of our latest workshop on the key elements of planning a successful press event.
Water, food, soil, and California’s need for holistic climate policy
Arohi Sharma shares the importance of soil health, soil’s relationship to water quality, and key takeaways from NRDC’s latest regenerative agriculture report.
Water Hub Staff Spotlight Q&A: José Aranda
I draw from past experiences, and incorporate new learnings, to help uplift underrepresented voices in water through the Color of Water initiative. Advancing water equity is at the center of my work.
4 artists and organizers on equitable engagement in climate, water & movement work
Strategies from four artists and organizers on equitable engagement in climate & movement work.
Round up: 4 artists and organizers inspiring the water and climate movement
Four artists and organizers whose work give insight into how to work equitably with creators and inspire change.Â
Envisioning Central Valley 2040
A panel discussion with local environmental justice leaders highlights practices and policies that can build drought resilience and address long standing climate challenges from groundwater to infrastructure and more!