Priority given to forestry best management practices, View the funding opportunity details and application
EPRI wins United States Water Prize for Ohio River Basin WQT Project! More
EPRI is conducting trailblazing work to create trading exchanges that assign economic value to the improvement of water quality across the Ohio River Basin.
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Stewardship credits invest directly on the landscape. Hear directly from one landowner who received funding through the project.
Water quality trading is an innovative market-based approach to achieving water quality standards through credit programs. More
Read the official amended water quality trading plan signed by the states of Ohio, Indiana and Kentucky. More
Key Resources
- "Integrating co-benefits produced with water quality BMPs into credits markets: Conceptualization and experimental illustration for EPRI's Ohio
River Basin Trading " published in Water Resources Research.
- EPRI hosted investor roundtable in NYC (1.1 MB)
- EPRI Wins U.S. Water Prize. Press Release (88 KB)
- October 2017 Project Update (1.4 MB)
- Ohio River Water Quality Trading Infographic (1.2 MB)
- Project registry video
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Credits for Sale
Working with small farmers, our water quality credits protect watersheds by providing a science-based option for those seeking to mitigate supply chain impacts and meet personal environmental footprint goals as well as larger corporate targets and permit compliance obligations.
The credits align with various sustainability programs and disclosures, including GRI, CDP, United National Sustainable Development Goals, and CEO Water Mandate. Visit our collaborators at First Climate to conveniently purchase between 1 and 100,000 credits today!
LEARN MORE AND PURCHASE CREDITS
Press Release May 29, 2019 “EPRI and First Climate Bring Water Quality Credits to Environmental Stewardship Markets”
Hear about the collaboration between EPRI and First Climate to sell credits:
WEBCAST: Bringing Water Quality Credits to Environmental Stewardship Markets
Friday, June 14, 2019. 11:00 am | Pacific Daylight Time (San Francisco, GMT-07:00) | 1 hr
Speakers: Jessica Fox (EPRI) and Jacob Bourgeois (First Climate)
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