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About Water Stories

We train and connect people to

create meaningful impact through

Decentralized Water Retention.

Whether you’re experiencing Drought, Flood, Fire, Extreme Weather, Water Scarcity, or Ecosystem Collapse - this is the place to transform your concerns into actions. ‍We created Water Stories to empower you to revive landscapes and provide space to connect with communities taking action for a better common future.

How do we train thousands of people to Restore the Water Cycle?

This is the question that gave birth to Water Stories. We are a team of Water Cycle Restoration professionals, creatives, and advocates, set on empowering people around the world to revive rivers, reverse drought, and heal their lands and waters.

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.

Our Core Course

Zach Weiss, Joseph Holzer, and colleague at the Krameterhof

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In the Community

A Message of Hope

As Water Stories continues to grow and develop, we like to celebrate the projects and milestones that have positively impacted the health of watersheds. Our evergreen post, A Message of Hope is a timeline we created to share with you, to keep ourselves accountable, and to record our growth as we continue to push for more.

By joining the community, you become a part of this message. The exchange of knowledge, the collaborative projects, and the connections you make, are all a part of creating real change on the landscape. Water cycle restoration needs everyone, and every contribution is crucial.

Read Our Story

Our Impact So Far...

Water Stories measures our success by the landscapes we are able to help heal.

Our community is doing amazing work, all around the world!

Over 6,000

Members of Our Community

200+ Countries

Represented in our Global Network

Over 10,000

Actions for water cycle restoration

Hoa Phan

I can't thank you enough for the wonderful program you have put together to help partake in this important work of restoring the hydrologic cycle and changing our relationships with ourselves, our natural world and our human kin. It is holistic and really amazing when fully embraced.

Laura Hoimyr

I learned a lot about how to look at the landscape differently and moved forward on projects I've been wanting to do.

Francisco Fuenzalida

It was very insightful to hear explanations about topics I have been reading for years. My practice is much more supported by this knowledge. Now my speech it's more clear and I have gained confidence in speaking for water, landscape and well being. The group is awesome. Alone it's impossible to grow and expand. It's very hopeful and helpful to see how Zach takes the time to talk gently to everyone.

Josh Cowan

As I'm leaning more into advocacy, how to read the land and how the water cycles work will probably prove to be most valuable to me.

Tomás García

What I have learned in Water Stories has truly changed my perception of what is possible, and I am very grateful to have been able to join this family of water cycle restorers. It has strengthened my previous knowledge and given me so much more than what I had before. With more knowledge there is less risk

Tony Grguric

I would tell individuals who have some existing connection to this area of work, to definitely go for it, and for others - if they are passionate about it - to do so as well.

Alexios Lazarou

This course was designed by impassioned people who love what they do. They are opportunists in the best sense, providing a service that is increasingly in desperate need: a sustainable methodology of relating to water, and natural ecosystems in general. This course gave me two invaluable things: first, a far better understanding of what I want to pursue and how, and second, access to a community full of likeminded people that I can grow with in this pursuit.

Becky Thatcher

While I have not yet completed the course, I feel I have found a "home."

Ready to be part of the movement?

Are you interested in learning a community-centered approach to solving our most pressing environmental crises?