In 2007, they began building the StreamBank web platform, an effort to use technology to increase the pace and scale of restoration.
[2] In 2015, Joe Whitworth, the organization's president, wrote a book documenting the "quantified conservation" approach that The Freshwater Trust uses to fix rivers.
The Freshwater Trust also works with regulated entities to meet regulatory compliance through river restoration.
Water quality trading allows permitted point-source dischargers to invest in “green” rather than “gray” infrastructure (natural versus built) solutions.
[7] The Freshwater Trust, along with Willamette Partnership, was instrumental in bringing together stakeholders in the Pacific Northwest to shape consistent approaches to trading in the region.