POLICY. STRATEGY.
PH.D.
STRATEGIC WATER ADVISORY
A FUTURESHAPED BY WATER.
Senior counsel for leaders facing high-stakes water decisions—
acquisitions, water rights, supply security and long-term risk.
YOUR ADVISOR
One senior advisor.
The whole picture.
Wendy J. Pabich, Ph.D., is an MIT-trained hydrologist and water strategist. Since 2005 she has worked where science, law, finance and community collide—leading the scientific strategy in one of Idaho’s defining water-rights fights, advising a mayor through a city’s water and wastewater decisions, designing a corporate water-risk simulation for a Fortune 500 company’s international team, and counseling investors, land trusts, regenerative agriculture ventures and companies on what their water is really worth.
You work with Wendy directly. No junior team, no billable-hour sprawl—just senior judgment, applied to the decision in front of you.
DOWNLOAD WENDY’S CVWHY IT MATTERS
Water decisions are never
only about water.
They’re about capital, permits, neighbors, ecosystems and decades of exposure. The costliest mistakes come from seeing one piece at a time. Wendy helps leaders see the whole system before they commit.
ADVISORY
Built around the decision.
Not the hours.
Every engagement starts with one question: what are you deciding, and what’s at stake? Choose the depth you need. Fixed fees, with scope agreed before work begins.
Decision
Sprint
One decision, one to two weeks, a clear recommendation. For a specific choice with a deadline—an acquisition, a water-rights transfer, a supply or conservation strategy, a dispute. Wendy reviews the record, pressure-tests the options and delivers a written recommendation and a live briefing for your leadership.
DISCUSS A SPRINTWater Risk
Diagnostic
Know exactly what you hold—and what it’s worth. A rigorous assessment of a water asset or portfolio: validity, priority, transferability, supply reliability and regulatory exposure, translated into decisions your board and deal team can act on.
DISCUSS A DIAGNOSTICExecutive
Water Advisor
Senior counsel while it matters most. For organizations navigating a critical water issue over months, not days. Wendy serves as your senior water strategist—briefing leadership, aligning counsel, engineers and consultants, and keeping science, law and finance moving in one direction.
DISCUSS AN ADVISORY ROLEWHO WENDY ADVISES
Impact & conservation investors · Companies with water commitments · Regenerative agriculture & working lands · Landowners & family offices · Public agencies
HOW WENDY CHOOSES HER WORK
Get water right.
For the long term.
Wendy works with leaders who want decisions that hold up—legally, financially and ecologically. Good for the balance sheet, and good for the basin.
TRACK RECORD
Tested where the
stakes are highest.
Selected work from two decades of independent practice.
Challenging $500M
in water rights.
Led the scientific strategy, research team, fundraising and coalition-building for ranching families and conservation interests in a four-year effort in Idaho’s Snake River Basin Adjudication, working closely with legal counsel.
SNAKE RIVER BASIN, IDAHOIntegrating a city’s
water decisions.
Three years as Strategic Water Advisor to the Mayor of Ketchum, including project manager for the city’s water and wastewater portfolio—spanning rights, supply, infrastructure, rates, policy and financing.
KETCHUM, IDAHODirecting $3.2M to
land, water and wildlife.
As inaugural board member, envisioned and designed the Blaine County levy program’s investment process—evaluating conservation deals on merit and financial leverage—and served as its technical lead on water.
BLAINE COUNTY, IDAHOSTART HERE
A big water decision ahead?
Start with one call.
The Water Decision Call is a focused, one-on-one session with Wendy on a specific decision, followed by a one-page summary of options and next steps. Apply with a few lines about what you’re facing. If it’s a fit, you’ll receive a link to book and pay.
APPLY FOR A DECISION CALLAlready know you need a Decision Sprint, Water Risk Diagnostic or Executive Water Advisor engagement? Write to Wendy directly.
wendy@waterfuturesinc.com