An environmental flow is the water regime provided within a river, wetland or coastal zone to maintain ecosystems and their benefits where there are competing water uses and where flows are regulated. Pioneering efforts in South Africa, Australia and the United States have shown that the process to establish them poses great challenges. Second in the series of the Water & Nature Initiative, this guide draws extensively on the experiences in these countries to offer hands-on advice and practical guidance on technical issues for this emerging issue on the water resource agenda.
Includes bibliographic references. Translation also available in separate English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, Chinese, Khmer, Burmese, Vietnamese, Lao and Thai language versions. The Arabic translation of this publication was made possible in part by funding from the Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation (AECID) and in cooperation with the Ministry of Environment in Jordan and released in 2010 on the occasion of the 10th Anniversary of the Earth Charter for North Africa and Middle East Region.
