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Clear Watershed Boundaries Are Essential for Successful Water Stewardship

  • Freshwater
  • Corporate Water Stewardship
  • water risk
The Mississippi River runs through a city.
  • Freshwater
  • Corporate Water Stewardship
  • water risk
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UN Water Conference 2023: Not Enough Game-changing Commitments

  • Corporate Water Stewardship
  • Water Quality
  • water risk
  • floods
  • drought
Girls collect water in Rajasthan, India
  • Corporate Water Stewardship
  • Water Quality
  • water risk
  • floods
  • drought
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WRI's Aqueduct Suite of Tools Has New Enhancements For Your Business

  • Corporate Water Stewardship
  • water risk
  • Aqueduct
  • Corporate Water Stewardship
  • water risk
  • Aqueduct
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Want to Grow Trees? Consider These 5 Lessons

  • restoration
The Pesalat Reforestation Project in Central Kalimantan, Indonesia, works to restore forest within a national park degraded by fire and logging. As of 2013, 450 hectares are under restoration, with over 4,000 seedlings planted. Photo by Aaron Minnick/WRI
  • restoration
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Not Just CO2: China’s Efforts on Lesser Known Greenhouse Gases Critical to Stabilizing the Climate

  • Climate
  • Air Quality
  • GHG emissions
  • Sustainable Development Goal 8
  • agriculture
  • climate change
Rice farmer in Chengdu. Rice cultivation can release methane. Flickr/UN Photo.
  • Climate
  • Air Quality
  • GHG emissions
  • Sustainable Development Goal 8
  • agriculture
  • climate change
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Here’s What Could Go Wrong with the Circular Economy—and How to Keep it on Track

  • circular economy
  • Sustainable Development Goal 12
  • Sustainable Development Goal 8
  • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
Mattress recycling.
  • circular economy
  • Sustainable Development Goal 12
  • Sustainable Development Goal 8
  • Responsible Corporate Advocacy

With New Business Roundtable Statement, Are 200 CEOs Stuck in Yesterday’s Corporate Sustainability?

  • Sustainable Development Goal 8
  • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
  • Climate
Skscrapers
  • Sustainable Development Goal 8
  • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
  • Climate
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The World Is Burning. Here Are 5 Things Companies Should Do About It.

  • Sustainable Development Goal 8
  • Paris Agreement
  • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
  • Business
  • climate change
  • greenhouse gas accounting
Wildfire in California.
  • Sustainable Development Goal 8
  • Paris Agreement
  • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
  • Business
  • climate change
  • greenhouse gas accounting

A New Strategy to Improve Water Quality—One Targeted Watershed at a Time

  • water pollution
  • hypoxia
  • Freshwater
  • Water Quality
More than 15,000 streams, rivers, and lakes are too polluted with nutrient runoff to support wildlife, be enjoyed recreationally, or serve as a drinking water source. Photo credit: USDA
  • water pollution
  • hypoxia
  • Freshwater
  • Water Quality
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This website serves as an information portal about eutrophication—the over-enrichment of water by nutrients such as nitrogen and phosphorus—a leading threat to water quality around the world. Explore our interactive map and learn more.

Can Nutrient Trading Shrink the Gulf of Mexico's Dead Zone?

  • water pollution
  • hypoxia
  • Freshwater
Dead fish resulting from toxins or oxygen depletion in Lake Binder, Iowa. Photo credit: Dr. Jennifer L. Graham, U.S. Geological Survey
  • water pollution
  • hypoxia
  • Freshwater