“…While most of this research has focused on coastal settings (Wheeler, White, Stahl‐Timmins, & Depledge, ), a small but growing body of research suggests that urban freshwater bodies can protect health and support well‐being through masking traffic noise (Jeon, Lee, You, & Kang, ; You, Lee, & Jeon, ), mitigating summertime temperatures (Völker et al, ), providing high levels of restorativeness (Thomas, ; White et al, ) (also see Korpela (2013) for further discussion of restorativeness), and providing spaces for improved physical activity, social interaction, and recreation (Thomas, ; Völker & Kistemann, ). Such health‐related services, alongside other benefits such as flood mitigation and water quality enhancement, have been proposed as a key argument for the redefinition of global policies around smaller water bodies such as ponds, which are typically excluded from conservation policy (Hill et al, ).…”