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https://www.worldbank.org/en/news/feature/2026/01/07/brazil-espirito-santo-water-sanitation-reforestation-mata-atlantica A World Bank–supported program combines reforestation with diversified livelihoods to store more water in watersheds, reduce flood and drought risks, and create jobs Rural producers Tânia and Henrique Gravel, from Guaçuí in Espírito Santo, are what you might call “water multipliers.” In 1999, when they moved to a 25-hectare property nestled in the mountains of the Caparaó Range, the land had only one spring. Today there are 14. Their achievement is not a miracle but the result of daily work in reforestation and conservation of the Atlantic Forest.