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RETAIN THE RAIN -NO MORE DOWN THE DRAIN! Rehydrating Landscapes to Renew the Climate Presented by Jan Lambert, Editor of Water, Land and Climate-The Critical Connection

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RETAIN THE RAIN-NO MORE DOWN THE DRAIN!Rehydrating Landscapes to Renew the Climate

Presented byJan Lambert, Editor of Water, Land and Climate-The Critical Connection

YOUR CHOICE OF COFFEE MAKES A DIFFERENCE!

THE WATER RETENTION LANDCAPE

GREG JUDY’S FARM-MISSOURI USA

GREG JUDY FARM-MISSOURI USA-SWALES CAPTURE RAINWATER

“We capture every drop of water and hold it on our farm.”

BRINGING BACK WATER, BRINGING BACK WILDLIFECuenca Los Ojos- “Watershed of Springs”

GREEN STORMWATER INFRASTRUCTURE-TURF REINFORCEMENT MATSCURED A SEVERE STORMWATER PROBLEM IN ILLINOIS, USA

FROM GREY TO GREEN STORMWATER INFRASTRUCTURE- KEENE NH (USA)

SSE HYDRO-GLASGOW SCOTLAND

37 000 Evergreen shrubs on green roof

Mike Beach Photo

RESTORING LANDSCAPES IN SLOVAKIA

One village - SLOVENSKÁ VOLOVÁ

•142 check dams •8 unemployed people•5 months

Types of water retention measures in landscape

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