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Natural retention for flood risks, drought control, biodiversity restoration and climate challenges: the Kyll river case

Natural retention in the Rhine catchment as a nature-based solution for flood risks, drought control, biodiversity restoration and climate challenges

  • Publication | 2025

Restoration of the natural sponge function of upstream micro-catchments has the potential to let the whole catchment downstream benefit.

 

Kyll river case study - Factsheet
Kyll river case study

 

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