"Waterflow" redirects here. For the town in the United States, see Waterflow, New Mexico.
Environmental flows describe the quantity, timing, and quality of water flows required to sustain freshwater and estuarine ecosystems and the human livelihoods and well being that depend on these ecosystems. In the Indian context river flows required for cultural and spiritual needs assumes significance.[1] Through implementation of environmental flows, water managers strive to achieve a flow regime, or pattern, that provides for human uses and maintains the essential processes required to support healthy river ecosystems. Environmental flows do not necessarily require restoring the natural, pristine flow patterns that would occur absent human development, use, and diversion but, instead, are intended to produce a broader set of values and benefits from rivers than from management focused strictly on water supply, energy, recreation, or flood control.
Rivers are parts of integrated systems that include floodplains and riparian corridors. Collectively these systems provide a large suite of benefits. However, the world's rivers are increasingly being altered through the construction of dams, diversions, and levees. More than half of the world's large rivers are dammed,[2] a figure that continues to increase. Almost 1,000 dams are planned or under construction in South America and 50 new dams are planned on China's Yangtze River alone.[3] Dams and other river structures change the downstream flow patterns and consequently affect water quality, temperature, sediment movement and deposition, fish and wildlife, and the livelihoods of people who depend on healthy river ecosystems.[4] Environmental flows seek to maintain these river functions while at the same time providing for traditional offstream benefits.
^Nilsson, C., Reidy, C. A., Dynesius, M., and Revenga, C. 2005. Fragmentation and flow regulation of the world's large river systems. Science 308:405-408.
^"Rivers and Lakes: Reducing the Ecological Impact of Dams". Archived from the original on 2015-07-18. Retrieved 2011-07-06.
^Postel, S., and Richter, B. 2003. Rivers for Life: Managing Water for People and Nature. Island Press, Washington, D.C.
and 27 Related for: Environmental flow information
Environmentalflows describe the quantity, timing, and quality of water flows required to sustain freshwater and estuarine ecosystems and the human livelihoods...
the Snowy River. The flows required to drown out the largest barrier, Snowy Falls, is potentially larger than the environmental water releases to the...
and industries, at least 5,000 cusecs flow are required from Narora to Farakka at a minimum environmentalflow during the eight-month-long dry season...
offered voluntarily to release the minimum environmentalflows downstream without contesting the environmentalflow requirement. CoA stipulated the same as...
advection of the storm by the local environmental flow. This environmentalflow is termed the "steering flow" and is the dominant influence on tropical cyclone...
information. They include green water (soil moisture), water quality, environmentalflow requirements, and virtual water trade. Water stress is one parameter...
freshwater inflow is the freshwater that flows into an estuary. Other types of environmentalflows include instream flow, the freshwater water flowing in rivers...
The discounted cash flow (DCF) analysis, in financial analysis, is a method used to value a security, project, company, or asset, that incorporates the...
the period 2005 to 2018, various environmentalflow strategies have attempted to re-instate a winter-spring montane flow pattern. These approaches have...
fluid dynamics is a subdiscipline of fluid mechanics that describes the flow of fluids—liquids and gases. It has several subdisciplines, including aerodynamics...
the return of environmentalflows to the Snowy River. The Snowy River Alliance formed in 1996 to address the lack of environmentalflow commemorates Snowy...
rotational friction of the troposphere against the planetary surface affects the flow of the air, and so forms the planetary boundary layer (PBL) that varies in...
other ecological elements may be an issue. Aqueduct (water supply) Environmentalflow Fluvial sediment processes Head cut Playfair's Law River ecosystem...
inland water. The most significant environmental governance policy imposed by the Australian government is environmentalflow allocations that allocate water...
Desertification. Material flow management has been credited as a factor in Environmental Sustainability and Environmental Management, given its focus...
rivers by their average discharge measured in descending order of their water flow rate. Here, only those rivers whose discharge is more than 2,000 m3/s (71...
Environmental science is an interdisciplinary academic field that integrates physics, biology, meteorology, mathematics and geography (including ecology...
available for environmentalflows and the salt export has been reduced by KWDT-II to 171 tmc (including 16 tmc minimum continuous environmentalflows) from 448...
Lessons Learned From a Global Implementation of Excreta-Flow Diagrams". Frontiers in Environmental Science. 8: 1. doi:10.3389/fenvs.2020.00001. hdl:10871/40296...
Flow cytometry (FC) is a technique used to detect and measure the physical and chemical characteristics of a population of cells or particles. In this...
divert Tarbela upstream flow indefinitely to ease Kabul and Swat floods. It can allocate storage for year around environmentalflow in Indus river. This...
industrial and environmental analysis soon followed. The design is based on segmenting a continuously flowing stream with air bubbles. Continuous flow analysis...
Kurugundla; N. M. Moleele; K.Dikgola. "Flow Partitioning Within the Okavango Delta –A Pre-requisite for EnvironmentalFlow Assessment for Human Livelihoods...
A flow battery, or redox flow battery (after reduction–oxidation), is a type of electrochemical cell where chemical energy is provided by two chemical...
flow accounting Material flow analysis Monitoring Certification Scheme Social metabolism Sustainability accounting System of Integrated Environmental...
arise from vertical gradients of vertical vorticity, stagnation of environmentalflow at an updraft, and pressure perturbations due to vertical buoyancy...
countries，such as minimum flow, environmentalflow regime, environmental water, ecological flows. In the 2010s, the assessments of environmentalflows at the basin...
Global Information