#Freshwater #CoastalSecurity #DroughtManagement
www.newsweek.com
New reservoir could supply millions with water for 800 years
A freshwater reservoir hidden beneath the Atlantic seafloor off the U. S. East Coast could hold enough drinkable water to supply a city the size of New York for roughly 800 years, researchers recently confirmed.
#RiverProtection #FreshwaterEcosystems #Conservation
www.forbes.com
Improving How We Track Progress For River Protection
Protection of the environment generally receives strong support from the public.
Yet there has always been a paradox at the heart of that support: protection for water resources is consistently the highest environmental priority for the pubic, yet the sources of that water -- freshwater ecosystems -- are often less protected and more degraded than terrestrial or marine ecosystems.