Natural infrastructure stores water more effectively than dams. Water quality improves. Wildlife flourishes. Fishing and hunting gets better. Farms have more predictable irrigation. Everyone and everyone depending on rivers for life and health improves.
For generations, we've treated built infrastructure as an asset while treating healthy rivers as something separate from the systems that sustain our communities. That distinction no longer makes sense. Healthy rivers are living infrastructure: www.americanrivers.org/2026/10/as-t...