In order to truly address the world's water challenges, we all need to take bigger, bolder steps to conserve water and reduce impacts on the quality and quantity of water available.
The Urban Water Blueprint provides a roadmap that demonstrates how investing in natural solutions, in addition to engineered solutions, can help address fresh water challenges facing cities around the world.
By implementing strategies outlined in the Urban Water Blueprint, cities can see significant return on natural investments to improve local water sources.
Find out how natural solutions can benefit more than 700 million people living in the world's largest cities in the Urban Water Blueprint, including 30 of China's fastest growing, large cities in the China Urban Water Blueprint.
Released on 18 April 2016, the China Urban Water Blueprint provides a scientific understanding of the current status of urban water sources and the potential for nature-based conservation in China. This report surveyed the source water catchments of the 30 fastest growing, large cities in China and compared and analyzed the effectiveness and economic valuation of nature-based conservation as compared to engineered solutions.
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