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… GREEN Ecosystem-based management approaches for water-related infrastructure projects GUIDE FOR WATER … if distributed throughout the upstream watershed e.g. drinking water supply reservoir (FAO, 2008). Such measures to ensure a high quality drinking water supply have already been put in place in a …

… Rewarding Tanzania’s Upland Poor for Providing Ecosystem Water Services 24 The Gran Ruta Inca Initiative 25 … hectares, occupying 86% of the cultivated area. Access to drinking water ranges from 58% in urban areas to 36% in rural … significant irrigation, covering 6,200 hectares. Access to drinking water ranges from 70% in urban areas to 38% in rural …

… such as food, fuel, construction material, clean water and air, and protection from natural hazards. … grow horticultural crops (high quality food), to provide drinking water to livestock that grazes fallow fields and … on water supply for the community, provisional piped drinking water for the community extended from the commercial …

… of Change 106 7 Food Security and Agriculture 124 8 Water Resources 160 9 Biodiversity and Soil 190 10 Energy and … and in Ecuador 80 per cent of Quito’s population receive drinking water from two protected areas.51 Over a third of … 100 largest cities draw a significant proportion of their drinking water from protected forests.52 In some cases, the …

… 2.1 Nature-based Solutions for water security … to the community’s identity and rely on it as a source of drinking water, stormwater conveyance, and tourism … River is a highly manipulated system, with water use for drinking, irrigation and recreation as well as hydrological …

… 20% of service provision area for sediment retention for drinking water quality, regulation of dry-season baseflows for drinking water provision, inland flood risk reduction for …

… plantations, the mountains eroded, endangering the city’s water supply. When they were reforested, recreational use was … a much-degraded watershed on which Rio depended for its drinking-water supply. To correct this, the government … in the park supply around 10 per cent of Mumbai’s drinking water. The park also protects the city from floods. …

… 66 4.4.6 Managing water resources … for Prevention and Control of Pollution in Protected Drinking Water Source Areas Issued and validated in 1989 … Prospecting and Development Measures for the Protection of Drinking Water Sources for Urban Life and Pollution Control …

… Sea-level rise further results in coastal erosion and salt-water intrusion. There is a risk that mangroves, … The survival of seagrasses is dependent on the water quality. When water quality is compromised, for … value factors include healthy fish stocks, permanent drinking water supply, timber and fuelwood resource, flood …

… control, and new irrigation facilities and reservoirs for water shortages. These options are likely to be costly and … Furthermore, it provides co-benefits such as clean water and food for communities, risk reduction options and … sales; avoided travel cost for migratory work and drinking water; avoided cost of government supplied water …