James Dalton

Investing in nature is just as important as the concrete and steel needed to build dams and reservoirs and contributes to the long-term resilience and sustainability of this infrastructure.

To maximise downstream water quantity, you remove vegetation—all of it, including the trees. To counter rising carbon dioxide levels, you plant trees—lots of them. How should we do both? Reblogged from the Global Water Forum.

In the face of climate change managing water resources is becoming more difficult. In an effort to manage increased water variability, there is a competing discourse on the need for more built infrastructure (e.g. dams, canals and levees) to store and regulate water in order to support social and economic development and facilitate adaptation to climate change.