HomeVideo Archive2023-05-13 Fostering Community Water Stewardship

Learn about new and established techniques for “Fostering Community Water Stewardship”. These approaches link individual water conservation measures to community projects to reduce water use and help our aquifer.

Catlow Shipek, Senior Program Director and co-founder of Watershed Management Group, a non-profit organization in Tucson, shared actionable strategies, resources, and examples of how individuals can make an even bigger impact with water conservation through neighborhood and community efforts including local and statewide policy opportunities to help scale up collective stewardship in our communities.

Catlow Shipek is a founding member of the Watershed Management Group. He has over 15 years of experience in applied watershed management, planning and policy, specializing in demonstration projects involving rainwater harvesting, green infrastructure, stream restoration, and eco-sanitation. Mr. Shipek has worked on several successful Tucson policy initiatives and has served on the Citizens Water Advisory Committee for Tucson Water. He received an MSc in Watershed Management from the University of Arizona and chairs the School of Natural Resource and the Environment's advisory board.

Some links mentioned or in the chat during the program:
(1) Watershed Management Group Documents: https://watershedmg.org/document
(2) Hydrate Your Plants Powerpoint: https://watershedmg.org/sites/default/files/documents/hydrate_your_plants_general.pdf
(3) Developing a Net-Water Positive Vision for the Sierra Vista Subwatershed https://watershedmg.org/document/developing-net-water-positive-vision-sierra-vista-subwatershed
(4) Hans Huth. Hydrologist, the Agua Dulce Homeowners Association: Sweetwater in the Foothills - Through the Eyes of Friends & Neighbors https://www.facebook.com/groups/306986290043858/

DAILY DROPLET

  • "Ranchers need clean water for their stock, farmers need it for their crops, every employer needs it to stay in business, and every living thing needs it for life... The law needs to be clear to protect water quality and the rights of landowners."
    Mark Udall

  • "Water is the driver of Nature."
    Leonardo da Vinci

  • "When the well is dry, we know the worth of water."
    Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard’s Almanac, 1746

  • "...and since flow of information is to spirit what water is to life, we'd best think about how to keep the pipes free and unclogged."
    Raphie Frank

  • "In an age when man has forgotten his origins and is blind even to his most essential needs for survival, water along with other resources has become the victim of his indifference."
    Rachel Carson

  • "We forget that the water cycle and the life cycle are one."
    Jacques Yves Cousteau

  • "Water is life's matter and matrix, mother and medium. There is no life without water."
    Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize for Medicine

  • "Water is everywhere and in all living things; we cannot be separated from water. No water, no life. Period..."
    Robert Fulghum

  • "It's the water. Everything is driven by the water."
    Mike Thompson

  • "Whiskey is for drinking; water is for fighting over."
    Mark Twain