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Improving How We Track Progress For River Protection
Protection of the environment generally receives strong support from the public.
Yet there has always been a paradox at the heart of that support: protection for water resources is consistently the highest environmental priority for the pubic, yet the sources of that water -- freshwater ecosystems -- are often less protected and more degraded than terrestrial or marine ecosystems.