Climate change is, in reality, water change. For decades, humanity has attempted to control water using heavily engineered "gray infrastructure" (dams, aqueducts), but this brittle approach has proven unsustainable, exacerbating extreme water events like droughts and floods.

Join us for an essential conversation with award-winning journalist and author Erica Gies about her book, "WaterAlways Wins". Erica proposes an urgent paradigm shift: the "Slow Water" movement. Instead of fighting water, we must learn to collaborate with it, making space for its natural processes.

The Slow Water concept aims to heal the often-ignored connection between surface water and groundwater, acknowledging they are "the same water". Through inspiring examples from global "water detectives," we explore powerful nature-based solutions.

Learn about ancient water management systems in Peru, such as the Amunas, which retain floodwaters to slowly infiltrate the ground, extending water availability into the dry season ("If we plant the water, we can harvest the water"). Discover how beavers act as crucial "ecosystem engineers", raising groundwater tables, and creating natural fire breaks. And see how the use of paleovalleys in California enables rapid and massive Managed Aquifer Recharge (MAR).

The Slow Water movement offers a message of hope and empowerment: these are distributed and local solutions that make our communities more resilient to floods, droughts, heat, and fire. Discover how we can work with water to create a more resilient and harmonious future.