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CLEAN WATER

What are we doing to keep our water clean? We are preventing deforestation and destruction of grasslands - nature’s water filters, Restore forests and grasslands that have already been lost or damaged and sending erosion into our waters, Equip farmers with practical ways to keep harmful run-off out of our waters, Restore floodplains that act as sponges and send water down into groundwater supplies and filter pollution out of rivers, create new science that helps pinpoint the greatest threats to our waters and the most effective ways to combat them.

But we know that just helping nature’s water filter won’t help as much, so we’re finding new ways to reduce water use. More than 70% of the water withdrawn from nature goes to agriculture, so we’re helping farmers access new technologies and practices that use less water while continuing to produce the food we need.