Running Pure : The Importance of Forest Protected Areas to Drinking Water
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World Bank/WWF Alliance for Forest Conservation and Sustainable Use
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This report focuses on one specific
interaction: the role of forests, and particularly protected
forests, in maintaining quality of drinking water for large
cities. There are many reasons for this focus: many city
dwellers already face a crisis of water quality, and
contaminated water spreads a vast and largely unnecessary
burden in terms of short and long-term health impacts
including infant mortality, with knock-on effects on ability
to work, industrial productivity and on already
over-stretched health services. The poorest members of
society, unable to afford sterilized or bottled water,
suffer the greatest impacts. Similar problems affect the
rural poor as well of course, and sometimes these can be
even more severe. However, in a rapidly urbanizing world the
scale of the problem facing cities is particularly acute.
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ABSORPTION, ACCESS TO SAFE WATER, ACCESS TO WATER, ADEQUATE WATER, AFFORESTATION, AGRICULTURAL AREAS, AGRICULTURE, AQUIFER, AQUIFERS, ARID REGIONS, ARIDITY, AVALANCHES, BIODIVERSITY, BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY, CATCHMENT, CATCHMENTS, CERTIFICATION, CLEAN WATER, CLEAN WATER ACT, CLIMATE CHANGE, CLIMATIC CONDITIONS, CLOUDS, COLLECTION OF WATER, CONSERVATION, CONSTRUCTION, CONTAMINANTS, CONTAMINATED WATER, CROPS, DAMS, DESALINATION, DIVERSION, DRAINAGE, DRINKING WATER, DRINKING WATER SUPPLIES, DROUGHT, DRY SEASON, ECONOMIC CONSEQUENCES, ECONOMIC FACTORS, ECONOMIC VALUE, ECONOMISTS, ECOSYSTEM, ECOSYSTEMS, EMPLOYMENT, ENVIRONMENTAL CONSEQUENCES, EROSION, EVAPORATION, EVAPOTRANSPIRATION, EXPLOITATION, FARMERS, FARMING, FARMING PRACTICES, FIELD CAPACITY, FISH, FISHERIES, FLOODING, FLOODS, FOREST MANAGEMENT, FORESTRY, FORESTS, FRESHWATER, FRESHWATER RESOURCES, GROUNDWATER, GROUNDWATER RESOURCES, GROUNDWATER SOURCES, HABITAT CONSERVATION, HYDROLOGY, INTEGRATED WATER RESOURCES MANAGEMENT, INVASIVE SPECIES, IRRIGATION, IRRIGATION SYSTEMS, IRRIGATION WATER, LAKES, LAND COVER, LAND USE, LEAKAGE, LEGISLATION, MUNICIPAL AUTHORITIES, MUNICIPAL WATER, NATURAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT, NATURAL RESOURCES, PASTURE, PESTICIDES, PIPED WATER, PLAINS, POLICY MAKERS, POLLUTION, POPULATION GROWTH, PRESSURE, PRODUCTIVITY, PROTECTED AREAS, PUBLIC WATER SUPPLIES, PURE WATER, QUALITY OF WATER, QUALITY STANDARDS, QUALITY WATER, RAIN, RAINFALL, RAINWATER, RAINWATER HARVESTING, RECREATION, RECREATIONAL ACTIVITIES, RESERVOIRS, RICE, RIVER, RIVERS, RUNOFF, SAFE WATER, SALINITY, SANITATION, SEA, SEAS, SEDIMENT, SEDIMENT LOAD, SEDIMENT YIELD, SEDIMENTATION, SEEPAGE, SNOWMELT, SOIL, SOIL EROSION, SOIL MOISTURE, SOIL STRUCTURE, SOIL TYPES, SOURCES OF WATER, STREAMS, SUBSIDENCE, SURFACE WATERS, SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT, SUSTAINABLE MANAGEMENT, SUSTAINABLE USE, SWAMPS, TAP WATER, TAPS, TIMBER, TRANSPORTATION, TREATMENT PLANTS, TREE PLANTING, TREES, URBAN POPULATIONS, URBAN WATER, URBAN WATER SUPPLY, WATER AUTHORITIES, WATER CONSERVATION, WATER DISTRICTS, WATER FLOW, WATER LOGGING, WATER MANAGEMENT, WATER NEEDS, WATER QUALITY, WATER RECYCLING, WATER RESOURCE, WATER RESOURCE INITIATIVES, WATER RESOURCES, WATER SERVICES, WATER SHORTAGES, WATER SOURCES, WATER SUPPLY, WATER TABLES, WATER TREATMENT, WATER USE, WATER YIELD, WATERSHED, WATERSHED MANAGEMENT, WATERSHEDS, WELLS, WITHDRAWAL OF WATER