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Erica Gies

Journalist and Author, Victoria, BC; San Francisco, CA

Erica Gies is an independent journalist who covers science and the environment from Victoria, British Columbia, and San Francisco, California. Her work appears in The New York Times, Scientific American and National Geographic, among others. She is the author of Water Always Wins: Thriving in an Age of Drought and Deluge (2022).

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Written by Erica Gies

Braided river with shallow channels flowing through a landscape of red and brown vegetation, against a backdrop of distant mountains.

Nature and the environment

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What does water want? Most humans seem to have forgotten

Asking what water wants sounds a bit mystical, even radical. But it’s a practical, proven path to creating a better world

by Erica Gies