Lauren Patterson is a senior water policy associate at the Nicholas Institute where her career has focused on bringing together data to understand the impacts and effectiveness of policies and management efforts on water resources. Policy questions include exploring the impact of: floodplain policy on development, different financing mechanisms to generate sustainable revenue for watershed protection, surface water withdrawals on aquatic species, changes in the energy sector on water withdrawals, and the performance of reservoir operations under changing environmental, societal, and regulatory conditions.
The Water Values Podcast by Dave McGimpsey. Dave has insightful and down-to-earth conversations with different experts and thought leaders to explore a variety of current and emerging topics in and around water.
