A joint Amazon-Microsoft project aims to restore wetlands and return over 750 million litres of water annually in Germany.
Amazon and Microsoft are funding a water restoration project in Germany that is expected to return more than 750 million litres of water annually to local groundwater supplies while restoring wetlands in the state of Hesse.
The project will be implemented by German environmental organisation NABU with regional partners and authorities across 40 hectares in the Vogelsberg region, an important source of drinking water for Frankfurt and surrounding communities. Amazon is contributing more than €2.9 million, while the announcement does not specify Microsoft’s financial contribution.
The initiative will remove artificial drainage systems, create shallow-water areas and depressions designed to slow runoff and increase infiltration, and introduce extensive grassland management to reduce nutrients entering waterways. NABU…
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