RESTORING RIVERS, A PERFECT NATURE-BASED SOLUTION

Addressing our most pressing societal-wide challenges, like water security, rising rates of natural disasters, and climate change, requires a visionary approach. We don't need to invent new technology: the answers are already in front of us. Nature-based solutions offer a framework for harnessing the power of natural features and processes to promote adaptation and resilience in our humanshaped environment. A return to working with the world around us can improve efficiency, combat climate change, reduce flood risk, improve water quality, protect coastal property, restore and protect wetlands, stabilize shorelines, reduce urban heat, and add recreational space. Just like protecting and restoring coral reefs and mangrove forests, preserving grasslands, and sustainably managing forests, restoring instream flows to rivers impacted by hydropower operations, dams and diversions, and upstream pollution is an effective…