Creating a Career in Water Cycle Restoration - Can you do it? What is the job market like?

[@ArosIrwin]

This is a super interesting subject! Please do more of this sort of thing. There are so many videos of projects, both on going and finished and they're great but you could really distinguish yourselves by making things from this more practical side, with experts talking about how and why they do what they do and how their lives work while doing the projects.

[@Water_Stories]

Awesome! Thanks for the feedback, we'll keep it up 🙂

[@ADAWC]

Love to!❤I have been following you for a little over two years and love what you are doing in regards to protecting the water, the land, the plants. It's people care, animal care and planet care. I learned so much from you and visualized that there are a lot of improvement can be done. I'm a full time volunteer in religious communities. Love what you, Matt Powers and many earth protectors are doing. If I can afford to sign up your seminar, I'd love to. I'm bound and restricted to travel outside our site. I know many NPOs who love to protect people and the earth. Some in the city. Some in the suburbs. Some have branches all over the seven continents. Asking for projects in the community is easy. But zoning, funding and getting educated volunteers are the major concerns. Does your course cover these topics, hope that these will come as the work progress or hope the alumni group will sort these out?

[@Water_Stories]

These are key challenges that you noted. The course touches on all of these, how to interact with the different levels of bureaucracy and permitting, how to manage working relationships (including volunteers), along with all of the other aspects of delivering real projects. It doesn't contain every possible scenario, but rather teaches you an approach that can be customized and then applied to your specific context. We will add this to the cue for upcoming videos like this as well, thanks for your feedback!!!

[@ADAWC]

@@Water_Stories Great! ❤️ I can think of a handful of projects just behind my head! Some site need improvement due to pond erosion. Some properties with some idle farm land need improvement for better uses. These properties are about 100 acres. I have been asked by a NPO (a nonprofit local district President) for solutions to produce organic vegetables and fruits for the less fortunate. That NPO has centers and triage centers in about 80 countries around the world. All of the above-mentioned are NPOs. You can save a lot of people around the world!

[@zenclimber]

Love this, keep doing this type of video

[@Water_Stories]

Thank you! Will do!

[@tomostojanovic1172]

very informative

[@RichardGoerwitz-r2f]

Does your training cover how to deal with karst topography? I haven't seen it addressed anywhere. Permaculture literature tends to assume that if water is infiltrated it will only move slowly through the ground. In my experience, swales i've built tend to drain rapidly down into the porous bedrock and out of reach of the plants. Building organic matter certainly helps and makes small scale swales work to a certain extent, but I'd really like to improve water retention on a larger scale. Around 10% of Earth's land surface is karst so I wish there were more resources for dealing with the differing nature of the water cycle on karst landscapes.

[@Water_Stories]

Our training is geared more towards learning an approach, rather than a set of recipes. It focuses on how to quickly learn the context specific details, through the dynamic process of interacting with landscapes. Throughout the course you dive deep into the geology of your site, you dig test holes and do experiments to see what delivers the best results. So there aren't karst specific strategies per se, but there are other students doing this in karst topography. During the office hours with Zach there is plenty of opportunity to dive into the specific challenges you face as well. Every site has different assets and challenges, there's no one size fits all approach. So our course focuses on training you to be able to tailor your actions (and offerings) to what best suits both your landscape and yourself.

[@BeeAre-n3k]

This was very helpful and encouraging

[@SuerteDelMolinoFarm]

I have an assignment opportunity for a water worker from Andalusia. We are in Huelva province. We can even host courses. We have an excavator and heavy clay soil. Welcome.

[@Water_Stories]

Sounds like you have all the ingredients to make something special! Have you checked our practitioners page? There are a number in Spain and we have a couple more who are currently graduating and will be on there soon. www.waterstories.com/practitioners

[@salscopinich4679]

🖕good stuff

[@improvetheworldnow]

such a disappointing direction for this type of work to be co-opted by markets and thus to shut out most of the global population.

[@improvetheworldnow]

individualism continuing to ruin the chances for humanity to sincerely move towards harmony with reality.

[@Water_Stories]

Have you checked out all of our free films, videos, webinars and other content? www.waterstories.com/stories And our free community? www.waterstories.com/community We offer a TON for free. Tuition from the course is how we stay afloat as an organization. This allows us to continue making more free content and building the community. 🙂

[@improvetheworldnow]

@@Water_Stories Yes I'm familiar with it I've been following what you're doing since before the community existed and was one of the first members online. There is already tons of free information available online, the problem is that the actual physical community (not just internet forums) and collaborative action is exclusive to the wealthy. The only possible way for humanity to move forward is AGAINST the economy (which is fundamentally based on people living in dysfunctional environments that can't provide what is needed locally thus keeping people reliant on import - that is what the economy has always been about) and against regulations, though it seems like you're more willing to go against certain regulations than against the economy.. But anyway, until even the poorest least educated child on the planet has opportunities to be directly involved with voluntary collaborative action to align human habitats with ecological succession and the water cycle, we won't be moving forward.. Staying afloat within the economy is a sign of failure.

[@BeeAre-n3k]

This was very helpful and encouraging