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Payment-for-ecosystem-services schemes that protect water at source.
A cross-catalogue lens on watershed payment-for-ecosystem-services (PES) precedents: how upstream land stewardship is financed to secure downstream water quality and supply. Assembled to inform watershed-scale natural-capital proposals.
Sources: AI in the Public Sector · Gender Equality · PES & Nature-Based Solutions
How many collected practices carry evidence for each of the project's value sources — surfacing where the design has thin precedent.
| Value source | Practices with evidence |
|---|---|
| water | 21 / 23 |
| biodiversity | 21 / 23 |
| governance | 22 / 23 |
| sustainability | 2 / 23 |
Under a 1986 treaty, South Africa pays Lesotho roughly R4bn (US$240m) a year — about 15% of Lesotho's …
Florida's SFWMD pays ranchers near Lake Okeechobee, under 10-year contracts, per acre-foot of water retained and pound of …
Peru's 2014 MERESE law lets water utilities reserve tariff revenue for watershed conservation - 45 of 50 utilities …
WWF and CARE brokered payments from Lake Naivasha's flower-export farms to c.785 upstream smallholders (of 5,000) who terrace …
Turkey's forestry ministry, with World Bank/GEF financing, has supported watershed communities since 2004 with saplings, irrigation tech and …
Since 2008, Rio de Janeiro's Guandu river-basin PES program has paid smallholders USD 6.25-31.25/ha/year to conserve or restore …
Since 2006 Beijing has paid farmers upstream in Hebei's Chengde and Zhangjiakou 450-550 yuan/mu/year to convert 103,000 mu …
Sri Lanka's first PES pilot (2019-22): hydropower firm Vidullanka (60%) and IUCN Sri Lanka (40%) spent ~LKR 6.1M …
FSM was the last Pacific nation never to elect a woman to national parliament until Dr. Perpetua Sappa …
The EU LIFE for MIRES project (2018–2024, €5.85M) rewetted ~2,200 ha of bogs and fens across Czechia's Šumava …
Independently audited by SGS, Sanpellegrino's Ruspino bottling plant achieved AWS Core Certification in 2020 for its stewardship of …
The Saudi Green Initiative (2021-) reports 151 million trees planted and 500,000 ha rehabilitated by mid-2025 -- about …
In November 2024, The Bahamas refinanced US$300m of commercial debt via Standard Chartered, backed by an IDB guarantee, …
In September 2022, Barbados converted US$150m of costly debt into a cheaper Blue Loan backed by IDB and …
A 2008–2012 CARE/WWF pilot paid upstream farmers in Tanzania's Uluguru Mountains — source of 90% of Dar es …
Since 2000, Pimampiro's municipal water fund has paid 27 upstream households US$8–12 per hectare per year to conserve …
Announced in March 2026, the Coca-Cola system is investing USD 1.94 million with IUCN and Tanzania's Wami-Ruvu Basin …
WSAS's independent 2023 audit certified Nestlé Nigeria's Abaji factory 'Core' under the Alliance for Water Stewardship standard, but …
Brazil's pioneering Water Producer scheme, piloted 2008–2015 in São Paulo's Cantareira system, signed 41 PES contracts covering 342 …
Since 2018, Zambian Breweries (AB InBev) and WWF Zambia have run a phased water partnership in the Kafue …
Heineken Ethiopia's BURQA initiative, with World Vision Ethiopia and Acacia Water, restores the Dabena and Hakim Gara catchments; …
In 2017 Nestlé's Sheikhupura plant became the first site worldwide AWS-certified; drip-irrigation subsidies with Punjab cut farm water …
Underwater sensors and AI models built by Kenya's KMFRI and Nairobi's ShoShin Innovation Hub flagged a dissolved-oxygen crash …
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