🎙️ Dr. Water Podcast Is Born: Crash Into Me, Water
- Marco Morales, Ph.D.
- Apr 10
- 3 min read
Updated: Apr 11
I have a big, intimate confession to make. Today, as I write these lines to announce that on Thursday, April 3rd, 2025, I will launch the Dr. Water Podcast, my soul trembles just a little.
This project was born from a clear and deeply human purpose — beyond the technical: to give water a voice. But it also comes from something more personal, quiet, and profound: the desire to transform love into motion. The motion of water flow, yes — but also the movement of awareness, of will, of emotion, of memory… of everything that helps us transcend.
When I imagined the Dr. Water Podcast, I was certain that emotion and science can hold hands — becoming a greater and more transformative force. Can soul and water speak to each other? I truly believe they can. And today, this becomes for me a powerful way to stay alive, to stay strong, and to heal.
A few months ago, I discovered that I’ve been living with severe depression for years. Silent, persistent, even hidden from myself. This illness has shaped me as a father, son, entrepreneur, partner, friend, human being. But it also showed me a way back — a path built on conversation, on art, on words… and on water.
In the midst of collapse, a miracle occurred. A series of images, a melody, and a few lines: the strength of hands holding in a yoga plank, hair falling gently to gravity, toes resting on a block… and a powerful song that touched me to the core.Listen to it if you can: Crash Into Me, by Dave Matthews Band.👉https://music.youtube.com/search?q=crash+into+me+dave+matthews+band
It was shared with me by a woman —my beloved— whose unique gaze changed the way I see the world. That provocative and visceral melody didn’t just open cracks; it opened channels. It flooded all my floodplains. It speaks with passion and intensity, whispering many lines that shattered old chains and inner constraints:
“Who’s got their claws in you, my friend?”
“Into your heart I’ll beat again...”
Since then, I’ve understood that a wave does not only destroy. It can lift. And love —like water— does not disappear: it transforms, filters, hides, evaporates… but always remains part of the cycle.
Sometimes love stays still, not because it's gone, but because it’s not the right time, or we lack the strength. Like a rock resting quietly at the bottom of the river… until the current returns and everything is reborn. Life, too, may look like a stagnant, muddy puddle — until rain comes again and it flows into a stream where hummingbirds drink.
“Sweet like candy to my soul”
“Sweet you rock and sweet you roll”
That’s love. That’s water. That’s how the Dr. Water Podcast is born.
A space on all major platforms (YouTube, LinkedIn, X, TikTok, Spotify) where we’ll talk about water —yes: droughts, floods, governance, innovation, green and gray infrastructure, human rights— but always from the heart.
In the first episodes, you’ll hear conversations between dear friends from different countries and disciplines. Don't worry — it won't be technical or rigid. It will be human, spontaneous, joyful, and when needed… emotional.
From what flows inside. I'll speak with wise, generous, and beloved friends. Not just scientists, but guardians of stories. People who see in water not just a resource — but a mirror.
The first interviews are already recorded. And I can’t fully describe the sweetness, laughter, insight, and hope that overflow in each one. We speak about water across continents, in crises and solutions, in silence and in memory. We speak of humanity.
As I write these lines, I think of those wide, long-lashed eyes that inspire me and travel with me. Today, it’s a love that still rests on a submerged rock in the most beautiful riverbank in the world. And I think of water as another way of loving: one that holds you, pushes you, heals you. One that may hurt sometimes — but never lies.
I chose not to heal through anger, but through knowledge. Not through silence, but through voice. And this podcast is an offering. Perhaps a legacy. A gift to you. To those who listen. And to those who will come after us.
I hope you’ll join me. I hope the Dr. Water Podcast crashes into you like a warm, luminous wave.
“Oh no, the less I see the wave come
and crash into me
I see the wave come and crash into me
Crash into me.”
(Dr. Water. Guatemala. March 31st, 2025)
This column was originally published in Spanish in La Hora on March 31st, 2025.
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