Communicating the Forest-Water Connection
It’s needed to grow the food we eat, to produce industrial products, and to maintain human hygiene – from taking showers to flushing toilets. In Texas, 2.3 billion gallons of water are used by Texans for domestic consumption, EVERY DAY. As the need for water increases, so does the cost to clean it. This is where forests can help.
Highlighting Investments in Forests for Water Conservation through the Savannah River Clean Water Fund
Keeping Forests, through a partnership with the Georgia Forestry Foundation, recently released a short documentary to bring awareness to the importance of forests to drinking water quality and quantity while highlighting the Savannah River Clean Water Fund, a forests and water conservation success story.
‘The Forest Filter: A Vital Step to Clean Water’ to Highlight Ecosystem Services Marketplace
Savannah River Clean Water Fund is an ecosystem services project that includes portions of Georgia and South Carolina along the Savannah River. The program includes a broad group of stakeholders, including five drinking water utilities participating as buyers in efforts to sustain the local forests’ ability to provide water ecosystem service benefits for communities and companies operating in the Savannah River Watershed.
Explore our Forest Values: Recreation
Southern working forests offer a vast range of recreational activities for people seeking respite from the stresses of urban life. Outdoor enthusiasts in the U.S. South spend over $320 billion annually on recreation, supporting over 2.7 million jobs.
A New Approach to Emerging Markets
Payment for Ecosystem Services (PES) water market models have been built around one idea: incentivize conservation by charging those who benefit directly, often through utility fees. But what happens when this traditional model doesn’t fit the local context, especially in rural areas where the political and economic landscapes are different?
Southern Forests Lead to Increased Water Quality and Cost Savings Downstream
Keeping Forests has partnered with the USDA Forest Service Southern Research Station (SRS) and NC State University to answer a key question — what is the value of forests to water quality and quantity?
COP27 – How Forests Are a Part of Solution to Climate Change
Nature-based solutions to climate action – and within that, working forests – continue to be a key part of the solution sets being discussed on this global stage. As the world continues to look to the forest for answers, public and private partnerships, like Keeping Forests, will continue to provide measurable conservation value.
