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Conservation for Cities: How to Plan & Build Natural Infrastructure (Island Press, 2015). Assessing ecological infrastructure investments. Benefits, costs, and livelihood implications of a regional payment for ecosystem service program. Sustainable hydropower in the 21st century. Institutional analysis of payments for watershed services in the western United States. The World Database on Protected Areas (IUCN and UNEP-WCMC, 2017) Protected areas and freshwater provisioning: a global assessment of freshwater provision, threats and management strategies to support human water security. Trading-off fish biodiversity, food security, and hydropower in the Mekong River Basin. Ziv, G., Baran, E., Nam, S., Rodríguez-Iturbe, I. United Nations World Water Assessment Programme/UN-Water The United Nations World Water Development Report 2018: Nature-Based Solutions for Water (UNESCO, 2018). Opportunities for natural infrastructure to improve urban water security in Latin America. Global state and potential scope of investments in watershed services for large cities. Estimating watershed degradation over the last century and its impact on water-treatment costs for the world’s large cities. Study role of climate change in extreme threats to water quality. Profiling risk and sustainability in coastal deltas of the world. Global threats to human water security and river biodiversity. Water on an urban planet: urbanization and the reach of urban water infrastructure. Natural Infrastructure (World Resources Institute, 2013). Improved understandings of the role of natural infrastructure in urban water networks must underpin strategic decision-making to sustainably provide freshwater ecosystem services to global cities. Forest cover in protected areas can improve the capacity of large dams in reducing sediment loads and producing hydropower, but cities mainly depend on reduced impervious surfaces and more green spaces within urban areas for flood mitigation. Our results indicate that protected wetlands contribute to sustaining freshwater provision to cities. Using network analysis, here we examine the interrelationships between built and natural infrastructure in 2,113 watersheds for 317 cities worldwide, focusing on four key freshwater ecosystem services: freshwater provision, sediment regulation, flood mitigation and hydropower production. Natural infrastructure solutions have increased to provide freshwater ecosystem services, but little global research has examined the intricate relationships between built and natural infrastructure for providing freshwater ecosystem services to cities across the globe. This need is conventionally met through the construction of infrastructure. Rapid urbanization throughout the globe increases demand for fresh water and the ecosystem services associated with it.