Water news, climate alerts, and increasing biodiversity losses continued to receive notice throughout 2023, despite a year of over-heated political rhetoric and hot wars being fought in multiple nations.

Stories of violent storms, dramatic flooding, and severe droughts may again top U.S. headlines in the coming year. My personal Water Wishes for 2024 include a look back at some of the important water stories that streamed from our offices this past year.

#10. Wishing for increased understanding of the vital, intrinsic relationships between our economy and ecology. >More 

#9. Wishing the real price tag for nature’s defenses was better understood.  >More 

#8. Wishing that governments and policy-makers would recognize the limitations of applying a cookbook to stream restoration design. >More 

#7. Wishing the “Green Economy” would focus its resources on real “to-the-ground” restoration of the planet. >More 

#6. Wishing that we respect how precious our water resources are to all life and all development. >More 

#5. Wishing that invasive and damaging strategies for species ‘restoration’ will be abolished. >More 

#4. Wishing for more consistent implementation of the 2008 Final Mitigation Rule across the U.S. >More 

#3. Wishing that we may begin to stem the steady tide of wetland losses. >More 

#2. Wishing that the current wave of disinformation finds its way to the trash – today’s “Environmental Markets”. >More 

#1. Wishing that we may “do well – by the planet and by future generations.” >More