Freshwater Projects

• The Freshwater Challenge: Accelerating Restoration and Conservation of Freshwater Ecosystems

  This projects aims to Support country-led target setting and prioritization of specific places in policies and plans, learning, and communications that strengthen country-level freshwater ecosystem restoration and conservation interventions and accelerate progress of the Freshwater Challenge.

  

• Paani Program: Supporting Energy Planning & River Conservation in Nepal

  Nepal is a country rich in water resources. Many of Nepal’s rivers have been developed and many more have hydropower dams and irrigation infrastructure projects proposed on them. While these projects can bring certain services, they can also impact the cultural, environmental, and economic values that natural rivers provide. WWF and partners conducted a series of analyses to inform system-scale energy planning for safe development and river conservation.
  

  

• The Freshwater Challenge

  The Freshwater Challenge is the world’s largest initiative to restore degraded rivers, lakes, and wetlands and to protect vital freshwater ecosystems

  

• Cuando River Basin Report Card

  The Cuando River Basin report card aims to strengthen transboundary water governance and inclusive decision-making mechanisms across the four countries that the basin traverses.

  

• Orinoco Basin Report Card

  WWF, the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, and several local partners collaborated to develop a report card for the Colombian portion of the Orinoco river basin. The report card will help inform management and policy decisions that impact the Orinoco, building a better future for all.