Post Carbon Fellow Sandra Postel was interviewed by the Millennium Alliance for Humanity and the Biosphere (MAHB) about creating sustainable global water policies. From the interview: Our policies need to embrace the fundamental truth that water is the basis...
Post Carbon Fellow Sandra Postel praised Yampa River enthusiasts for keeping their river healthy while also highlighting the urgency to address the world’s freshwater challenges. From the article: Before she outlined problems and solutions, Sandra Postel, director of the...
Post Carbon Fellow Sandra Postel’s comments on partnerships to restore watersheds were reported in this article on her upcoming visit to Lake George. From the article: According to Postel, it is possible to restore ecosystems by detoxifying the water...
Post Carbon Fellow Sandra Postel’s appearance at the Tuscon Festival of Books was picked up in the Arizona Daily Star. From the article: Do you love technology, but have trouble making it work? Is science more confusing than useful?...
Post Carbon Fellow Sandra Postel was quoted at Bloomberg News on the threats to North American desert wetlands posed by drought, overuse and over allocation of water, and low levels of water in Lake Mead. From the article: While...
Post Carbon Fellow Sandra Postel and Lesli Allison, Executive director of the Western Landowners Alliance, cowrote this op-ed on the critical state of the Colorado and Rio Grande rivers. From the article: This summer, the Rio Grande may actually...
Do rivers have a right to water? As dams and diversions deplete flows, it’s a question environmental advocates and legal scholars are asking more and more. Over the last decade, rivers in Ecuador and New Zealand have won legal...
Post Carbon Fellow Sandra Postel offers practical ideas for managing the ongoing drought conditions in the southwestern United States. With a clear-eyed analysis of the problem, including less snow pack in the Rocky Mountains, lower flows in the rivers,...
An interview with Sandra Postel by Elaina Zachos, National Geographic The average American directly uses about 2,000 gallons of water each day. Your morning shower takes 17 gallons of water and growing the coffee beans for your cup of joe...
Sandra Postel‘s new book is Replenish: The Virtuous Cycle of Water and Prosperity. It’s about the world water cycle, and about real solutions to the problem of providing water for people and food, and at the same time for nature...