Forests in headwater areas benefit water quality and hydrologic cycling. Furthermore, maintaining and restoring the forest cover in headwater catchments offers other, multiple benefits such as increased soil water retention, intercepted pollution pathways, improved soil, maintained biodiversity and captured carbon dioxide.
DISCUSS PG / PL - Geometry - Attempt in place to deprecate - use Location 2 instead
POINT (5.017614493157 50.036923958778)
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Location
POINT (5.017614493157 50.036923958778)
Source
wocat
Case study id
technologies_5925
Local name
Maintien de la couverture forestière dans les eaux d'amont
Full Context
- NSWRM(Sections), Default view, ALL, OPTAIN : Wimbe River Basin, Proximity with
- NSWRM(KP)