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The Natural Heritage Institute is a nonprofit, public interest law firm and policy research organization founded in 1989. Our mission is to protect and restore our domestic and global water resources by developing innovative solutions using cutting-edge scientific, legal, and policy analysis.
We believe that preserving natural waterways is crucial to maintaining a necessary balance between humans, nature and agriculture. We help make better decisions to optimize water usage for current and future generations by working with leaders and their communities to gather the full range of community and stakeholder views. Our expert staff provides objective scientific, legal and policy analysis to find common ground for thoughtful deliberation and debate.
NHI assists in nearly all stages of water management decision-making and approaches the decisions from an integrated systems perspective. Waterways are integrally related with surface waters, groundwaters, and their adjacent land ecosystems that support natural habitat and human communities. We analyze the flows in these interrelated water systems and recommend how the flows could be best optimized to serve the various interests that need water. We help to show how optimizing water usage leads to beneficial impacts that can be measured in both economic value and in healthy environmental conditions for all its inhabitants.
NHI's Strategic Plan
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