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How New York keeps its unfiltered water safe: spending millions on land

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Tags: water.unfiltered, usa.ny.nyc, infrastructure, reservoirs, land use, politics.usa, government.local, policy.environment, filtration, author.hilary howard, source.the new york times, paywall
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/nyregion/nyc-unfiltered-water-reservoirs.html

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    This is the way to go. Protecting and conserving watersheds has been an important goal of conservation organizations for some time now. It works not only to reduce filtration requirements, it also...

    This is the way to go. Protecting and conserving watersheds has been an important goal of conservation organizations for some time now. It works not only to reduce filtration requirements, it also keeps runoff out of the water, protects against water shortages (dramatically) and results in a lot of carbon capture and sequestration.

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