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Artificial Wetlands Purify Water as Nature Recruited to Help Deal with Climate Change
- Fintan Burke
- Mar 5, 2016
- 1 min read
Natural resources are being used instead of pipes, pumps and ditches to help Europe deal sustainably with floods and rising temperatures.
These so-called ‘nature-based solutions’ alter the local ecological landscape to provide a more natural solution to flooding problems.
‘This isn’t just making the environment look pretty,’ Dr Laurence Carvalho of the Freshwater Ecology Group told a conference in Brussels, Belgium, on 1 March called Innovating with Nature.
Dr Carvalho, based in Edinburgh, UK, gave the example of the Gorla Maggiore region in northern Italy, where a constructed wetland beside the Olona river has helped to fight flooding.
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