Healthy Rivers for All Partnership Retreat

The Healthy Rivers for All partnership retreat—attended by WWF and IAN staff—convened this month in Annapolis. This partnership seeks to assess and address water issues worldwide, and has developed many basin health report cards, most recently in the Upper Rio Grande. The most water-stressed regions of the world were identified and prioritized for future report card and other partnership efforts. Stakeholder engagement strategies were reviewed and plans to enhance and build on past successes were made. The utility of future scenario modeling—which was part of the Upper Rio Grande Report Card—in understanding resource management options was discussed. Ultimately, the team planned and prepared for the partnership’s work in the next few years, laying the groundwork to continue work in water-stressed basins across the globe.

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