BSR Insight | Scaling Up Payments for Watershed Services
Watershed Connect, a new online platform by Forest Trends and Ecosystem Marketplace, helps water managers, policymakers, and other stakeholders involved in investing in watersheds share information and resources to help solve the global water crisis. Through payments for watershed services (PWS) programs, cities globally have been addressing water scarcity and declining quality cost effectively by restoring and protecting the natural infrastructure that supplies clean water. Through these programs, landowners receive financial incentives to conserve, sustainably manage, and/or restore watersheds to yield services like purification, flood and erosion control, and places for people to enjoy the outdoors. Despite much activity, there has been no effective space for those involved in PWS to share experiences and ideas. This platform aims to make information on various programs more accessible so more practitioners can receive news and analyses, join relevant discussions, share their own project work, and access resources to help them implement or scale up their own PWS schemes.
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Linda Hwang, Former Manager, Research
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