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Protecting river flows critical for global water supplies ...


Nature-Based Solutions for Water Management: A Primer - UNEP-DHI

Steady release of water stored underground and in wetlands serves to maintain river flows long after rainfall events. These ecosystem services regulate the ...

Big boost to climate action as 38 new countries join the world's ...

Stuart Orr, WWF Global Freshwater Lead said, “Healthy rivers, lakes and wetlands are our best buffer and insurance against the worsening impacts ...

Great Salt Lake - Utah Division of Water Resources

With the decline of other lakes, Great Salt Lake is increasingly important to these species. Preserve and protect. The Utah Department of Natural Resources is ...

Source Water Protection Week - American Water Works Association

The best way to assure we have high quality drinking water at the tap is to protect our beautiful water sources. If we keep our rivers, ...

Keeping iconic rivers flowing - WWF

Rivers throughout the world are under threat from human development. We're taking more water from them than ever before, creating dams, building on banks and ...

Rivers and Their Cultural Values: Assessing Cultural Water ...

It focuses on the conservation paradigm of environmental flows that grew out of efforts in the United States to allocate water to instream uses ...

3 Satellite Technologies Reveal Nature's Impact on Water

Satellites that track river flows over time provide information on whether efforts to protect or restore watersheds are improving water supply ...

From Forests to Faucets: Where does your drinking water come from?

Even if they are far away from where surface water is pumped to provide supplies, forests help keep drinking water clean and safe. A new USDA ...

Water and Conflict: Fresh Water Resources and International Security

Gleick, "The Sensitivity of Streamflow and Water Supply in the Colorado Basin to. Climatic Changes" (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, ...

The Importance of River Discharge in Run-of-River Hydropower - BWI

River discharge is crucial for run-of-river hydropower, directly affecting electricity production, flood control, and maintenance.

Water Use and Stress - Our World in Data

'Renewable internal freshwater flows' refer to internal renewable resources (internal river flows and groundwater from rainfall) in a country. Renewable ...

Minnesota Water Facts - files . dnr . state . mn . us

Water flows north (Red River of the. North Basin), south (Mississippi River ... The Red River Valley is one of the world's flattest landscapes. The ...

Water Quality and Protection | U.S. GAO

EPA has undertaken large-scale watershed restoration efforts, which involve protecting aquatic ecosystems and wetlands in important geographic areas. For ...

The Future of Water - Yale School of the Environment

... water to cities (and to environmental flows). The current level ... water resources protection and enforcing regulations globally. We ...

Global Water Governance in the Twenty-First Century

Widespread declines in groundwater levels are one symptom of water scarcity. Groundwater is an important source of freshwater in many parts of the world. Some ...

Understanding Rivers - National Geographic Education

Rivers are important for many reasons. One of the most important things they do is carry large quantities of water from the land to the ocean.

Why are water cycle processes important? - NASA GPM

The water cycle is an extremely important process because it enables the availability of water for all living organisms and regulates weather patterns on ...

Chapter 4: Water | Climate Change 2022: Impacts, Adaptation and ...

The global-scale pattern of streamflow changes is now attributable to observed historical climate change, with human land and water use insufficient by ...

Groundwater | GEF

It also significantly contributes to river flow. Today groundwater is estimated globally to provide 36% of potable water, 42% of water for irrigated agriculture ...

Water cooperation | SIWI - Leading expert in water governance

Only about one-third of the world's approximately 310 transboundary river basins currently have formalized cooperation agreements. The number is lower still for ...