Welcome to the website of the Global Environmental Flows Network - your gateway to information on Environmental Flows
Environmental Flows (eFlows) refer to water provided within a river, wetland or coastal zone to maintain ecosystems and the benefits they provide to people. This website is an open portal for anyone interested in accessing, sharing or discussing information on eFlows.
eFlowNet is planning to conduct a seminar at the 2010 World Water Week in Stockholm. These have been carried out every year since 2006 with increasing success. This year we would like to have input from the wider membership on the seminar topic. The Steering Committee has come up with a number of potential topics and we also invite you to put forward your own suggestions: take the survey!
Current Highlights
Notice Board
Special issue of Freshwater Biology on eflows science and management
Edited by Angela H. Arthington, Robert J. Naiman, Michael E. McClain, and Christer Nilsson, this special issue of Freshwater Biology was released in January 2010. Early views of articles in advance of print are available
New technical guidance note on environmental flows and hydropower
Please note World Bank's publication prepared by Karin Krchnak and Brian Richter of the Nature Conservancy and Gregory Thomas of the Natural Heritage Institute with support from the World Bank's Water Partnership Program
The Sava River Basin has the potential to provide not only security and protection to the livelihoods of the people living along its banks but also to be a model of transboundary integrated river basin management. This vision was created during the international conference ‘Towards a Shared Vision for the Sava River’ that took place on 4-5 November in Zagreb, Croatia. Read More
Ecosystem services of wetlands - A Special Issue of Hydrological Sciences Journal
The Editors of the Journal have agreed to a Special Issue focusing on ecosystem services of wetlands, which will contain around 30 high quality scientific papers.
The Water Resources Coordination Center (WRCC) of the Economic Community Of West African States (ECOWAS) in Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso) has recently introduced a dialogue on large hydraulic infrastructures in West Africa.
The Global Water Partnership (GWP) is seeking nominations for its Steering Committee. Four positions become vacant after the Steering Committee meeting in May 2010.
