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Downstream Voices - Wetland Solutions to Reducing Disaster Risk

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In the new book “Downstream Voices” commissioned by Wetlands International, internationally renowned author Fred Pearce takes you along his journey to three large river basins in India, Mali and Senegal where Wetlands International improves water resource management and the condition of wetlands to make communities more resilient to extreme weather events and impacts from climate change.

Jane Madgwick, CEO of Wetlands International: “We are thrilled to launch “Downstream Voices” which shares some of our experiences and illustrates how improving the management of wetlands helps to reduce water-related disaster risks, from the village level all the way up to the wider landscape and watershed. With this book we hope to open the eyes of governments, development and aid organisations, environmental experts and engineers. We invite them to embrace this new way of thinking and to collaborate better for a safer world”.

For more information please contact Susanna Tol at susanna.tol@wetlands.org or +31 622624702.