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Green Infrastructure: How Healthy Watersheds Store and Clean Water
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Green Infrastructure: How Healthy Watersheds Store and Clean Water

Across ecosystems and continents, the planet has evolved extraordinary ways to hold water within the land. Wetlands, bogs, peatlands, and high elevation grasslands each act as living sponges, capturing rainfall, storing it for months or even years, and slowly releasing it downstream.

In a world where many regions face growing water scarcity, resilience depends on maintaining the natural systems that store and clean water for free. Across the globe, communities struggle with the cost of filtration, storage, and delivery. As populations expand and demand increases, the most affordable and sustainable solution remains protection of the source.

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