Tag: World Water Day
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10 facts about water policy and infrastructure in the USA
From the water safety crisis in Flint, Michigan to the near-disaster with the Oroville Dam in California, a string of water-related events have made headlines, and called into question the U.S. focus on keeping critical water systems safe and functioning. In advance of the U.S.-focused Water Week and the U.N. World Water Day, Brookings experts…
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3 [more?] Surprising Ways Water Depends on Healthy Forests
Healthy forests are critical to providing clean water. Forests can positively impact the quantity, quality and filtration costs associated with a city’s water, sometimes even reducing the need for costly concrete and steel infrastructure. The world’s major watersheds lost 6 percent of their tree cover on average from 2000-2014. Today, about 31 percent of the…
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3 Surprising Ways Water Depends on Healthy Forests
Deforestation in the Amazon can affect rainfall in places as far away as Texas. Photo by Katja Schulz/Flickr Healthy forests are critical to providing clean water. Forests can positively impact the quantity, quality and filtration costs associated with a city’s water, sometimes even reducing the need for costly concrete and steel infrastructure. The world’s major…
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Matt Damon Hopes His Daughters Will Give Back in a Charitable Way: ‘They Better!’
Matt Damon is speaking out about a good cause — one that he, in fact, helped create. The father of four girls — he shares daughters Stella Zavala, 6, Gia Zavala, 8½, and Isabella, 10, with wife Luciana, as well as Luciana’s daughter Alexia — chatted with PEOPLE at “The Water Clouds by Stella Artois”…
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10 facts about water policy and infrastructure in the U.S.A.
Full article: 10 facts about water policy and infrastructure in the US From the water safety crisis in Flint, Michigan to the near-disaster with the Oroville Dam in California, a string of water-related events have made headlines, and called into question the U.S. focus on keeping critical water systems safe and functioning. In advance of…
