Nature-Based Solutions: Enhancing Water Management and Water Security | Our Future Water
Welcome to this week’s edition of the "Our Future Water" newsletter. This issue explores the vital role of nature-based solutions (NBS) in managing water resources and securing water supplies. As climate change and population growth place increasing pressure on water systems, NBS provide sustainable, resilient solutions that work with nature. Learn how these approaches improve water quality, support ecosystems, and secure reliable water supplies for communities worldwide.
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Nature-Based Solutions and Water Management
NBS leverages ecosystems to manage water sustainably, improving water quality and quantity while promoting biodiversity. By restoring and protecting natural systems like wetlands, forests, and rivers, NBS helps regulate water flows, mitigate flood risks, and support groundwater recharge. This approach minimizes reliance on expensive, human-made infrastructure while maintaining the long-term health of water systems.?
Natural processes such as forest conservation and wetland protection enhance water filtration, reduce runoff, and promote resilience to extreme weather. These systems act as natural buffers, protecting communities from flooding, maintaining healthy watersheds, and ensuring a steady clean water supply for urban and regional populations.
Read the full article by Robert C. Brears to discover how New York City's Watershed Forest Management Plan exemplifies NBS for water management. Learn how this initiative, developed in partnership with the United States Forest Service, preserves forest ecosystems and safeguards the city’s drinking water supply, demonstrating the cost-effectiveness of working with nature.
Nature-Based Solutions and Water Security
NBS are equally critical for addressing water security. They provide natural methods to increase water availability, improve quality, and manage excess water. NBS, like detention basins, river restoration, and floodplain rehabilitation, strengthen natural systems, helping communities better manage their water resources and reduce vulnerabilities to climate change.
For instance, detention basins and retention ponds are designed to store runoff during heavy rainfall, reducing flood risks and enhancing groundwater recharge. River rehabilitation and floodplain restoration improve water quality by reconnecting ecosystems and promoting natural filtration processes. Additionally, managed aquifer recharge and rainwater harvesting help replenish groundwater supplies and reduce over-extraction, offering long-term solutions to water scarcity.?
Read the full article by Robert C. Brears to explore how NBS are addressing water security challenges globally. Learn how various NBS, such as groundwater replenishment, floodplain restoration, and river rehabilitation, secure water supplies, protect ecosystems, and build climate resilience.
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3 周Have you ever heard of a ocean water reconditioning to regenerate a marine ecosystem/kelp forest project anywhere? It is the only regeneration or protection approach that directly addresses ocean water quality and human impact upon it. It will be the beginning of corporate accountability due to the pollutants and their amounts caught in the filters. It will, can be the beginning of the legal documentation changing human impact on the ocean from detrimental back to beneficial, of the taking responsibility for our actions, for our pollution or non pollution based historical track record/s. Exponentially expandable to be commensurate to the amount of pollution/detrimental impact we have introduced into the communal resource of the ocean/kelp forest. Does it exist or do I have to create it?
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3 周Two kinds of PPB filters are those of granulated ceramic filter media and those of glass micro beads. Both have the advantage that they can be produced at low cost almost anywhere. Both are nature based in that they depend on gravity only, given the input of clear water. Water filter media of glass micro beads is the contribution of Prof. William LaCourse, of Alfred University’s New York State College of Ceramics, Alfred.edu. Following are a link to a schematic of a PPB system for 2,000 beneficiaries, whether granulated ceramic or glass microbeads, https://drive.google.com/file/d/1WEuo6wj5RBk9qz3kh2JN1Z3TguB102xn/view?usp=drivesdk ? In municipal water treatment, regardless of location, PPB filter media could substitute for slow sand treatment, with little or no subsequent need of UV or RO disinfection. Here is the article, *Filtering safe drinking water through granulated ceramics.* https://drive.google.com/file/d/1RWJEKLHQu697EFcx0RAC[1]LyNWHBNP5se/view?usp=drivesd