Pay. Establishing payments for watershed services

This guide attempts to define a roadmap for the creation of economic mechanisms and tools that relate development to conservation, agricultural and industrial production, and the increasing urbanization of our landscapes.

To pay or to compensate for environmental services – how to do this and who has to do it – is not yet fully incorporated into the present models of water management. Today we urgently need new and innovative ideas, tools and ways of working to finance the protection of our water resources. We need to obtain positive, sustainable results which guarantee effective, environmental management of water supplies.