Biodiversity Law Centre’s Post

Protecting our ecological infrastructure is critical to water security. 💧 Our Executive Director, Kate Handley, discusses the importance of government prioritising the protection and restoration of South Africa's critical water resources (including wetlands). 💧 Despite President Ramaphosa placing emphasis on "decisive actions" to address the water crisis through expanding built infrastructure in the recent SONA, attention on the need to protect, conserve and restore our water resources was absent. 💧 "Just as with built infrastructure, it is important to manage, invest in and maintain ecological infrastructure — the nature-based equivalent. Ecological infrastructure has the potential to complement and, in some cases, substitute built infrastructure solutions for water resource management." #lawfornature #biodiversity #ecologicalinfrastructure https://lnkd.in/dnK8T_7W