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Safe drinking water is essential for health, but can be expensive or time-consuming to access in areas that don’t have piped water. Protecting water catchment areas and aquifers from alien invasive species and pollution can help to improve access to safe water for all, and improve resilience to drought.

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Aquifer management
Conservation areas
Fire
Greater Cape Town Water Fund

Removing alien invasive plants to increase water supply, reduce wildfire severity and conserve native vegetation

Tanzania
Erosion
Conservation areas
Food: Production
Catchment management
Shinyanga Soil Conservation Programme (HASHI)

Re-introducing traditional land management practices to reduce disaster risk

Rwanda
Ecosystems: Outdoor education
Parks
Catchment management
Nyandungu Eco-Park

Rehabilitating urban wetlands to clean water and expand leisure amenities

Kenya
Distribution
Storage
SHOFCO aerial water supply

Providing water to informal settlements via overhead pipes

South Africa
Public space cleaning
Catchment management
Flooding
Conservation areas
Transformative Riverine Management Programme

Collaborating with communities to clean urban waterways

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