# 427 James Barrett - Europe has a water retention problem

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Podcast: [Investing in Regenerative Agriculture and Food](https://stenobird.com/podcast/investing-in-regenerative-agriculture-and-food-327782)
Published: 2026-06-09T15:00:00+00:00
Episode link: https://investinginregenerativeagriculture.com/2026/06/09/james-barrett/
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Europe doesn't have a water problem. The rain still falls; we've just spent a few hundred years engineering it off the land as fast as we can, which James Barrett likens to hauling your garden clippings to the dump only to drive back in spring and buy compost. James is a regenerative hydrology consultant, founder of Decent Water Company and lead regenerative designer for Ten Lives Festival in Portugal — where 150 people spent their mornings digging rock-lined "smiles" into a semi-arid, 70-hec...

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