Session 3 – Nature for Water

The report seeks to inform decision makers about the potential of nature-based solutions (NBS) to address water management challenges, and particularly regarding water for agriculture, sustainable cities, disaster risk reduction and water quality.

The publication is a call to ation that highlight the importance of safeguarding nature in order to secure water-related services, and to achieve the SDGs.

The European Investment Bank launched the Clean Oceans Initiative to fight plastic waste in rivers, seas and on land. The goal is to finance €2 billion in public and private sector projects by 2023.

H₂O, The Molecule That Made Us is a three-part series from PBS and WGBH that tells the human story through our relationship to water.

This article outlines how source water protection strategies have been shown to improve water quality and reliability for cities around the world while creating economic opportunities upstream.

In their “Wellspring of Resilience” report, The Nature Conservancy shows how these strategies can also protect communities against disasters and threats linked to climate change.

The Nature Conservancy and partners, seeks to illustrate how nature-based solution sused for source water protection can also provide important co-benefits, building more resilient communities.

This fund allows urban users to invest in upstream watershed conservation efforts for the benefit of farmers, businesses and more than 9 million Kenyans who depend on the Tana River.

In this video, follow the journey of water to find out how one city, Bogotá, Colombia, gets water from its source in Chingaza National Park and the surrounding páramo ecosystem.

In this infographic, learn about the global status of water through a summary of facts along with findings from a forthcoming analysis of how nature-based solutions (NBS) for water are featured in national water policies.