Radio Appearances, Podcasts, Op-Eds, Blogs and other Media
Sandra Postel is named Stockholm Water Prize Laureate 2021
Postel was one of the first to warn of a global water crisis and to call for the conservation of water-based ecosystems.
The Stockholm Water Prize is awarded by SIWI in cooperation with the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and will be presented by the Swedish King H.M. King Carl XVI Gustaf at a royal ceremony on 25 August, during World Water Week.
Sandra served as a freshwater visionary for the 2019 Emmy-award-winning Our Planet series on Netflix. View the 4-minute freshwater video
Three Authors See Water, Water Everywhere, for Better and Worse
Robert Glennon reviews Replenish for the NY Times.
Water: The Stuff of Life
BBC Newshour
Sandra Postel joins an international panel of water experts to discuss the dimensions of global water risks and what it will take to build water security.
Science in Action
The BBC World Service interviews Sandra about building resilience against floods and droughts, as Cape Town, South Africa, counts down to Day Zero when it turns off its taps.
KEXP FM
Mind Over Matters interviews Sandra about Replenish.
Science
The journal Science conducted a Q&A with Sandra about Replenish, and published this podcast.
RadioCafe
RadioCafe interviewed Sandra about Replenish and published this podcast in its series Down to Earth.
Additional Media
The journal Nature Water published an interview with Sandra titled “Leaving our Silos to Preserve the Natural Environment,” January 16, 2024.
Waterloop published this podcast with Sandra titled Pivot Back to Nature on December 6, 2022.
Sandra joins Grounded host Julia Jackson for a Fireside Chat on World Water Day, March 22, 2022, at 1-2PM ET (10-11AM PT).
The Conservation X Labs podcast Xploring published this interview with Sandra on the Future of Water on February 23, 2022.
What About Water?, hosted by Jay Famiglietti, recorded this podcast with Sandra for airing in late 2021.
Doomsday Watch included Sandra’s perspective on water in this podcast, which first aired in December 2021.
World Water Week, Plenary Conversation (virtual), Stockholm, August 23, 2021. (Viewable here, beginning at 48.08 min).
World Water Week, Centre Stage Talk (virtual), Stockholm, August 23, 2021. (Viewable here.)
The US Council on Foreign Relations recorded this podcast with Sandra for its “Why It Matters” series on July 8, 2021..
The Stockholm International Water Institute Communications Initiative recorded this interview with Sandra on May 18, 2021. (Interview begins at 20:48 minutes.)
The Stanford Millennium Alliance for Humanity and the Biosphere published this Dialogue with Sandra on February 18, 2021.
New Books Network published this interview with Sandra about Replenish on July 22, 2020.
The Hill published this piece by Sandra titled “It’s Time to Create a Climate-Preparedness Corps,” on April 20, 2020.
BioLogos interviewed Sandra for its podcast Water: Exploring Spiritual and Scientific Depths, which originally aired on April 23, 2020.
Sandra served as a freshwater visionary for the 2019 Emmy-award-winning Our Planet series on Netflix. View the 4-minute freshwater video.
The Hill published this piece by Sandra titled “Connecting the Drops Between Farm Fields and Mounting Water Risks,” on June 19, 2019.
The Pew Charitable Trust published this sit-down interview with Sandra and Jay Famiglietti on World Water Day 2019.
The journal Nature has a brief review of Replenish here.
The New York Times published this review of Replenish (and two other water books) on March 30, 2018.
Circle of Blue interviewed Sandra about Replenish and published this podcast.
Food Tank published this excerpt from Replenish, titled “Texas Ranches Manage Cattle to Improve Habitat and Watershed Health.”
The journal Civil Engineering published a review of Replenish in its January 2018 issue, noting that Postel is “the perfect guide through (water’s) many interlocking issues, and that Replenish is “as readable as it is informative.”
WAKE interviewed Sandra for the podcast Understanding the Global Water Crisis on World Water Day 2019.
Water Deeply published this excerpt from Replenish, titled “Creative Solutions to Save Vital Arizona River.”
National Geographic published this Book Talk interview about Replenish.
After the Fact, the podcast of the Pew Charitable Trust, interviewed Sandra for Water, Water, Not Everywhere, posted in March 2019.
International Rivers published this interview about Replenish.
Island Press and River Network hosted this webinar about Replenish and Abbie Gascho Landis’s book Immersion.
Smithsonian draws on Replenish and an interview with Sandra in this piece on the Cape Town, South Africa, water predicament.
The Hill published this article by Sandra, titled “As Water Shortages Loom, How to Keep Western Rivers Flowing,” on March 9, 2018.
Medium.com published this review of Replenish on May 28, 2018, and also re-published The Hill op-ed here on March 26, 2018.
The Hill published this article by Sandra and Lesli Allison of Western Landowners Alliance titled “Western Water Strategy Shifting from ‘Use it Or Lose It,’ to ‘Waste Not, Want Not,’ on June 14, 2018.