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News feed from the online platform of the natural water infrastructure CoP by Forest Trends and Ecosystem Marketplace

Oct 17, 2013 New Guidance To Protect America's Water And Reduce Costs With Natural Infrastructure
Oct 17, 2013 Julio Tresierra: Transforming Lives
With Investments In Watershed Services
A Peruvian sociologist dedicated to poverty alleviation has helped implement a version of payments for watershed services projects in impoverished nations like Guatemala, Peru and Indonesia with the help of WWF. The initiatives have led to a host of benefits for the local populations and ecosystems and now have the Chinese government as well as other nations interested in the model.
Oct 10, 2013 Restoration vs. Renewable Energy: Amateurism Doesn’t Pay
Good land stewardship and energy efficiency both support our economy, but governments don’t pay nearly as much attention to the economic benefits of investment in environmental restoration as they do to investments in energy efficiency. Damon Hess of Sitka Technology argues that they should.
Sep 25, 2013 This Week In Water: With Water Energy Nexus, It's Lead Or Be Led
Ecosystem Marketplace is at the One Water Leadership Summit in Los Angeles this week where everyone is thinking about the water-energy nexus. Meanwhile, Australia's newly elected government reduces funds for Murray-Darling buybacks and Coca-Coca enters into a partnership with the USDA to protect US National Forests.
Sep 06, 2013 In The Colorado Delta, A
Little Water Goes A Long Way
This Week is World Water Week and a coalition spanning the US-Mexico border is a perfect example of this year's theme-water cooperation. The group is thinking outside the box to restore the Colorado River delta - using water rights markets, recaptured wastewater, and a groundbreaking new federal deal-that's breathing new life into an ecosystem widely assumed to be gone forever.
Sep 04, 2013 China's clean-water program benefits people and the environment, Stanford research shows
Sep 04, 2013 At the Farm and the Brewery, MillerCoors Gets More Beer to the Barrel with Water Efficiency
Sep 04, 2013 Water footprinting: will it help companies manage a scarce resource?
Sep 04, 2013 Pennsylvania's Nutrient Trading Bill Pledges To Reduce Cost And Improve Results, But Will It Work?
Two organizations with a shared interest in improving the Chesapeake Bay watershed are divided over a draft nutrient trading bill in Pennsylvania, with supporters foreseeing a slash in the cost of Bay cleanup and opponents seeing technology that isn't cost-competitive or compliant with state and federal regulations. 
Sep 04, 2013 Wildfires and Climate Change
Sep 04, 2013 Should offsets fund the Coalition’s reef plan?
Sep 04, 2013 OECD urges government action over ‘water stress’
Sep 04, 2013 The global water crisis – why water politics matter for business security
Sep 04, 2013 UN agency says 2.2 mln Zimbabweans face food shortages
Sep 04, 2013 Majority of China’s Proposed Coal-Fired Power Plants Located in Water-Stressed Regions
Sep 04, 2013 Colombia: Ecosystem services take a central role in disaster risk management
Sep 04, 2013 Arizona Irrigators Share Water with Desert River
Sep 03, 2013 New framework aims to help guide water-saving investments
Sep 03, 2013 Water conference opens in Stockholm with wise supply plea
Sep 03, 2013 New regulations drive discussion at Iowa Farm Bureau conference