Documentary 'The Forest Filter: A Vital Step to Clean Water' to Highlight Ecosystem Services Marketplace
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The Savannah River Clean Water Fund is an ecosystem services project that includes portions of Georgia and South Carolina along the Savannah River. The program includes a broad group of stakeholders, including five drinking water utilities participating as buyers in efforts to sustain the local forests’ ability to provide water ecosystem service benefits for communities and companies operating in the Savannah River Watershed. Recently, International Paper became the first partner from the private sector to join the list of buyers participating in this Clean Water Fund.
Keeping Forests, through a partnership with the Georgia Forestry Foundation and Georgia-Pacific, is highlighting this ecosystem services project as a case study through a documentary that will be released this February. The documentary will explore how the partnership was established, its current challenges and opportunities, and plans for the future. This effort will be used to raise awareness of source water conservation using ecosystem service markets with water professionals, legislators and key decision makers across the state and the U.S. South through the Keeping Forests network.
The documentary will release in Spring 2022. Follow Keeping Forests on social media for more updates.
