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Forests Help Quench Urban Thirst
2016-03-21 19:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Inter Press Service: The next time you turn on the tap to fill the kettle, you might want to spare a thought for the forest that made it possible. It may be a hundred kilometres away or more from where you are sitting, but the chances are that you owe your cup of tea, in part at least, to the trees that helped to capture the water, and to filter it on its long journey to you the consumer. The importance of forests to the water cycle cannot be overstated. They slow down the flow of water, percolating it gently through...
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