The event everyone is talking about!
You have already heard a lot about it from us and now is your chance to join us ONLINE OR LIVE in Port Townsend, WA, USA
Zach Weiss will be presenting live and in person at this May’s Global Earth Repair Convergence. As a long-time leader in water cycle restoration, Zach will be sharing practical insights and on-the-ground experience, contributing to these important, growing conversations.
This event will bring together over 500 in-person participants and thousands more virtually - including restoration practitioners, experts, permaculturists, scientists, innovators, funders, and community organizers - to accelerate action on ecosystem restoration, climate cooling, food security, and biodiversity recovery.
Joined by other members of the Water Stories team, who will also be attending and sharing their work, they’ll be contributing practical insights and real-world experience to a global gathering focused on restoring ecosystems and regenerating landscapes.
Your chance to join us in person.
Building Resilience from Flood to Drought: A presentation and Hands-On Workshop
We’re hosting two separate events in collaboration with NW Bloom in Woodinville, WA, following the Global Earth Repair Convergence: join for one or both!
On Friday evening, Zach Weiss of Water Stories will present a grounded look at how we can respond to floods, drought, and fire through decentralized water retention. Rooted in real projects, this talk connects big-picture challenges to practical ways of working with water that will be followed by open an Q&A session.
This talk is completely free. Please reserve a spot by selecting a free ticket on our ticket page. On Saturday, step into a hands-on “Reading the Land” workshop at a private site in Woodinville. You’ll work through real conditions, explore design options, and get a feel for how to slow, spread, and hold water in practice.
Water Stories Core Course students receive 50% off the Saturday workshop.
Whether you’re a homeowner, land steward, or professional, you’ll walk away with practical tools to restore resiliency, starting right where you are
Find the registration link in our bio
Are you sure the erosion fix isn’t making things worse?
Rushes that establish naturally on one side of a gully can act like a wall, pushing water sideways and cutting deeper into the opposite bank.
Any structure placed across a channel needs a low point in the middle. That’s what keeps water moving down the centre and away from the sides.
The same logic applies to plants. Establish them on the banks first, stabilise the sides, then work towards the middle. Placing them in the centre too early just redirects flow to the edges where the soil is still bare.
Water always finds the path of least resistance. Make sure that path is the one you intended.
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Water has a remarkable ability to find the smallest gap.
When wood sits directly against soil, water often follows that seam. As the wood slowly breaks down, the space grows larger, making it even easier for water to slip through. Over time that small pathway can become a real weakness in a structure.
By slowing the flow and allowing sediment to accumulate, the system begins to change. Fine material settles in, gradually filling those gaps. What starts as a permeable space can slowly seal itself as sediments build up.
It is a quiet process, but an important one. Breaking the force of water and encouraging deposition allows the landscape to reinforce itself over time.
#WaterCycle
We are thrilled to share that Zachary Weiss will be speaking in-person during our May 7-11 Global Earth Repair Convergence in Port Townsend, WA.
Zachary is the founder of Elemental Ecosystems (@elementalecosystems )
- whose mission is to restore watersheds and regenerate ecosystems globally, while providing an action-oriented process to improve clients’ relationship with their landscape.
Zachary Weiss also founded Water Stories (@wearewaterstories )
“Water Stories’ mission is to distill the wisdom of the world’s leading Water Heroes into an actionable training that can be done by anyone. We believe that anyone, no matter your background, context, income, or age, can have an impact on your local Water Cycle.”
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We are honored to have Zachary join us, and look forward to collaborating on a plan to restore 1 billion hectares in 3 years.
For more information regarding speakers and programming, please visit our site:
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It’s becoming clearer every year that water is not just an environmental issue. It is one of the most important forms of real security we have.
While many industries are being reshaped by rapid advances in AI, there is growing uncertainty around what work will still be needed in the near future. Entire job categories may change or disappear within months.
But working with land and water is different.
Water cycle restoration is grounded in real landscapes, real systems, and real needs.
Droughts are intensifying. Floods are becoming more destructive. Water is becoming more valuable.
And the ability to read land, capture rain, and build systems that hold water is only becoming more relevant.
It is one of the most stable and needed skill sets, both for landowners and for people building a career.
We have seen this directly. Many of our students have gone from learning these skills to creating meaningful, stable work in less than a year. Designing projects, working with clients, and restoring landscapes in very practical ways.
Ponds, for example, are one of the fastest ways to build water security. But knowing where to place them, how to design them, and how to build them so they last is what makes the difference between success and costly mistakes.
This is exactly why the Water Stories Core Course exists.
Today is the final day to join the 2026 course with Zach Weiss and our Water Stories team.
If you miss it, the next opportunity will be in 12 months in 2027.
It’s worth asking what kind of skills will still matter in a rapidly changing world.
Working with water is one of the clearest answers I’ve seen.
It’s tempting to solve water with plastic.
Dig a hole, add a liner, fill it up.
Quick, simple, predictable.
But what we lose in that process is connection.
Water is no longer interacting with the soil.
No recharge, no rehydration, no relationship with the landscape.
It becomes storage, not restoration.
Building natural earthen ponds is a different path.
It takes more care. More understanding of soils, moisture, and compaction.
But when it works, it becomes part of the land. Quietly effective, long-term, and regenerative.
If you want to learn how to build ponds without liners and actually work with water in the landscape, this is exactly what we teach in the @wearewaterstories Core Course.
Enrollment for this year closes tomorrow, March 27.
After that, the course will not open again until 2027.
It’s always a choice between quick solutions and lasting ones.
#WaterCycle #LandscapeRegeneration
What an unforgettable week ❤️💧
With @wearewaterstories , we hosted an intensive workshop at @marc.leiber ’s farm in Portugal last May. A full week of learning by doing, moving between observation, design, and hands-on implementation.
We built a pond from start to finish, following a design that @elementalecosystems had developed specifically for this site. It was a great setup for learning, because students could experience each step of the process in a real context, not just in theory.
Alongside the pond, we worked on check dams and beaver dam analogs, explored spring tapping, and spent time understanding how water moves through the landscape.
Students learned about excavator safety and also got to spend time on the machine in the pond building process.
I also had the chance to share how we use Emlid GNSS equipment during site assessment and construction. Marking key features, tracking elevations, and moving between map and field with precision. I always love the combination of digital tools with what you are seeing and shaping on the ground.
Learning in theory is a great start, but these intensive workshops go onto another level of learning. You can see the shift from understanding concepts to actually working with them.
These are exactly the kinds of skills students develop in the Water Stories Core Course.
Enrollment for this year’s course is open until Friday, March 27. After that, it will close again and only reopen in 2027.
It’s so amazing to see what could be done with the students and how beautiful the pond looks now.
#WaterCycleRestoration
#emlidforbusiness
It’s always striking to see Tenerife this green.
After one of the wettest winters in many years, the Canary Islands have just received another wave of heavy rainfall. Water is flowing, waterfalls are running, and the landscape looks full of life.
But at the same time, the damage is visible. Flooding, erosion, and destruction across different areas.
These events are not separate from droughts and fires. They are part of the same cycle.
Drought dries the land.
Fire weakens it further.
And when the rain finally comes, the landscape cannot absorb it.
Water rushes off instead of soaking in.
Breaking this drought, fire, flood cycle is one of the most important challenges we face. And the approaches to do this are not complex or out of reach. They are practical, learnable, and already being applied in many places.
Every year, @elementalecosystems and our @wearewaterstories train a new group of practitioners through the Water Stories Core Course. People who go on to restore water cycles, support landscapes, and build meaningful work around this.
Enrollment for this year’s course is open until Friday. After that, it will close again and reopen in 2027.
There is so much potential here. The question is whether we choose to work with it.
#WaterCycle #Tenerife
This is your window.
Enrollment for the 2026 Water Stories Core Course closes this Friday, March 27.
After that, the next opportunity to join will be in 2027.
For many people, this is the moment where something shifts.
From being interested in water, to actually learning how to work with it.
From watching projects, to starting to shape landscapes.
This course has been the starting point for people all over the world.
Farmers, designers, engineers, land stewards, and people with no prior experience at all.
What they share is a decision to step closer to the work.
Water cycle restoration is not abstract.
It is practical, hands-on, and deeply needed.
And the skills you build stay with you for life.
Today, there is also one last chance to join the Change Makers Worldwide webinar, where students share what they’ve created after taking the course and how their paths have evolved.
If you’ve been feeling the pull to understand water more deeply,
this is the time to decide if you want to follow it.
Enrollment closes Friday.
#WaterCycle #LandscapeRegeneration
Zach Weiss is a water recycle restoration expert who has been training the next generation of water cycle restorers and advocates. In the process a beautiful community and inspiring has developed, and it is building a groundswell of movement. Their Water Stories course teaches people how to restore the water cycle and become advocates. The next one starts this Fri Mar 27th 2026. For more info see climatewaterproject.substack.com for the interview. The podcast interview is also on your favorite podcast platform.
What becomes possible when knowledge meets a real landscape at scale?
In this clip, Francesco Fassina shares how he moved from observation and test slices into planning and implementation on a large project. Remote analysis informed the direction, but it was the direct reading of the land that confirmed where intervention would actually work.
From there, the process became very practical. What equipment is needed. How long the work will take. How to plan for extreme events and build features that can handle them.
This is one of the paths emerging from the course. Some students apply it on small sites. Others step into large scale projects and begin shaping entire landscapes.
These are not isolated cases. Around the world, people are using these skills to create real, lasting change.
We are currently hosting our Change Makers Worldwide webinars, with another session happening tomorrow, where more students are sharing their work and experiences from the field.
The Core Course is open for enrollment until March 27. After that it will close again and only reopen in 2027.
It’s always amazing to see what becomes possible when people decide to step into this work.
#WaterCycle #LandscapeRegeneration
