Resources
Supporting Your Journey in Water Cycle Restoration and Land Hydration
This page gathers the teachers, mentors, and sources that have shaped our understanding of water retention and landscape rehydration. We hope these resources can give you similar inspiration toward restoring water and life to the land.
Foundational Concepts
A clear introduction to how water naturally moves through soil, vegetation, and the atmosphere. This video reveals how healthy landscapes restore moisture, regulate climate, and prevent degradation.
Understanding how water naturally moves through landscapes is the foundation of all water retention and rehydration work. These videos offer a clear introduction to the small water cycle — how healthy soils, vegetation, and biodiversity regulate water, and how restoring these patterns can bring ecosystems back to life.
A hopeful look at how slowing, spreading, and sinking water can bring damaged ecosystems back to life. It illustrates how simple interventions can rebuild soil, restore springs, and stabilize local climate.
This film explores how mature forests naturally capture, store, and circulate water within the landscape. It demonstrates the critical role these ecosystems play in maintaining local rainfall, soil moisture, and climate stability.
This video explains how landscapes dry out when water can no longer infiltrate the soil. It shows how runoff, erosion, and bare ground create a cycle of decline — and why restoration is urgently needed.
This video introduces the idea of treating land like a water savings account. It shows how healthy soils and vegetation store water, increase groundwater recharge, and build long-term landscape resilience.
A documentary‑style exploration of how water functions as a foundational force in ecosystems and why restoring natural water cycles is essential for landscape health.
Deeper Learning
For readers who want to explore the scientific foundations and deeper theory behind water cycle restoration, these resources offer powerful insights into how water shapes ecosystems, landscapes, and even climate.
The New Water Paradigm — Michal Kravčík
A pioneering publication that explains how local water cycles influence rainfall patterns, soil moisture, and regional climate. Kravčík presents a clear scientific framework for understanding how retaining water in the landscape can reverse drying trends and restore ecological balance.
Climate Water Project —
Alpha Lo (Substack)
An in-depth exploration of how water vapor, vegetation, and local hydrology work together to stabilize climate. Alpha Lo’s writing is accessible yet profound, offering a new way of seeing water as a central force in climate resilience and landscape regeneration.
Books
Here are a few books that have deeply shaped my understanding of water, landscape regeneration, and the power of restoring the small water cycle. Each of them offers a different perspective — from practical techniques, to ecological insight, to the deeper meaning of water in our lives. I share these titles as trusted companions on the path of water stewardship.
Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands — Brad Lancaster
A practical and inspiring guide to capturing, slowing, and sinking water in both rural and urban environments. Brad Lancaster’s work is full of accessible techniques that empower readers to read the land, design with intention, and build moisture into the soil. A foundational resource for anyone interested in regenerative water management.
Living Water — Olof Alexandersson (about Viktor Schauberger)
This beautifully written book introduces the ideas of Viktor Schauberger, exploring water’s natural movement, vitality, and intelligence. It blends observation, science, and philosophy in a way that helps readers develop a more intuitive relationship with water. A deeply inspiring entry point into understanding water as a living force.
After Us, the Desert and the Deluge — Michal Kravčík
A powerful exploration of how local water cycles shape the health of landscapes and climate. Michal Kravčík describes how drying and flooding arise from disrupted water pathways — and how communities can restore balance through water retention, soil regeneration, and decentralized solutions. A visionary yet practical book that illuminates the importance of the small water cycle.
Communities & Networks
These communities unite people who are committed to restoring water cycles, healing ecosystems, and regenerating land. I share them here as sources of inspiration, learning, and connection.
Water Stories Community
The Water Stories community connects land stewards, practitioners, and educators who are restoring the small water cycle around the world. Through shared learning, courses, stories, and practical tools, this network supports people in developing the skills and confidence to bring water back to the land.
Tamera Peace & Education Center
Tamera’s Water Retention Landscape in Alentejo is one of Europe’s pioneering examples of large-scale ecological restoration through water. Over the past decades they have transformed a dry and degraded region into a thriving, living landscape using ponds, earthworks, soil regeneration, and community-based stewardship.
Ecosystem Restoration Camps (ERC)
Ecosystem Restoration Camps is a global movement mobilizing people and communities to restore degraded ecosystems through hands-on action. Camps around the world — including sites in Portugal — focus on soil regeneration, water retention, biodiversity recovery, and collaborative learning on the ground.
Water Is Love (Film)
Water Is Love is a poetic and moving documentary about our deep relationship with water — emotionally, ecologically, and spiritually. It has been an important source of inspiration in my work and a reminder of why restoring the small water cycle is both practical and profoundly human.
