These tables serve as a reference document containing the key design elements of nutrient trading programs in four Chesapeake Bay states: Maryland, Pennsylvania,
Virginia, and West Virginia.
The issue brief provides an overview of how businesses and water utilities in the United States and Latin America are pursuing upstream forest conservation as a cost-effective means of ensuring clean water supplies. It also suggests how many of these approaches could be applicable in the southern United States.
In the Southern United States, the watersheds with the greatest ability to produce
clean water and with the most consumers tend to be the
forested watersheds of the east (top).
Many payments for watershed services share a common
trait: they are investments in “green infrastructure”
instead of “gray infrastructure.” In other words, they are investments
in forests i
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