Increasing climate variability is threatening the water supply and exposing the fragility of the New York City watershed, which hosts the largest unfiltered water supply in the world.
The watershed gained national and international recognition for its 1997 Memorandum of Agreement, in which local residents and the New York City Department of Environmental Protection collaborated to protect the supply from needing filtration.
Through land-management practices, conservation easements and government-owned protected lands, the watershed region employs a variety of conservation techniques to preserve the unfiltered supply.
Students in the course learn from stakeholders about successes, controversies and future challenges surrounding the agreement, including contributions from artists, historians and local farmers.
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