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World Resources Institute: Natural ecosystems provide essential services for our communities. Forests and wetlands, for example, filter the water we drink, protect neighborhoods from floods and droughts, and shade aquatic habitat for fish populations.
While nature provides this “green infrastructure,” water utilities and other decision-makers often attempt to replicate these services with concrete-and-steel “gray infrastructure”--usually at a much greater cost. Particularly where the equivalent natural ecosystems are degraded,......
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A Critical Moment to Harness Green Infrastructure—Not Concrete—to Secure Clean Water
Posted by World Resources Institute: Todd Gartner on January 10th, 2013
Posted in Water Conservation