2011/03/21: Celebrating Forests – Source of the Water of Life

The many benefits that forests provide, including their role in providing clean water, are being celebrated across Europe today and tomorrow - World Forest Day and World Water Day (March 21 and 22). People across the world depend on forests for a wide range of goods and services. Some of these benefits and services, such as biodiversity and timber supplies, are well understood, but others, such as forests’ importance to the provision of clean water to towns and cities, are less widely known, according to FOREST EUROPE.