eFlowNet is co-convening a seminar on 5 September that aims to accelerate solutions to the challenges of maintaining ecosystems and related livelihoods in water management, in particular in river basin management

African freshwater species threatened – livelihoods at stake

Seeking input to outline most relevant and specific issues for the eflows and bioenergy debate.

This is a note from World Rivers Day Chair, Mark Angelo...

Request for help in identifying past flow experiments.

The World Wetland Network recently launched the International Wetland Globes, an awards scheme to recognise best practice and wetland restoration, and to highlight wetlands in danger.

As usual, environmental flows will be an important and predominant theme of the International Riversymposium in Perth this year.

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.

2nd International Interdisciplinary Conference on Predictions for Hydrology, Ecology, and Water Resources Management: Changes and Hazards caused by Direct Human Interventions and Climate Change to be held in Prague, Czech Republic, in the period 20-23 September 2010.

"Environmental Flows and Canada's Freshwater Future" - a high level assessment of 10 Canadian Rivers based on key threats to environmental flows - triggers reactions from local stakeholders across the country.

Villagers who live on or near water resources in the Mekong Basin should be given more of a voice in the planning of future infrastructure and other water development projects says the Mekong River Commission.

After the 2004 and 2006 meetings, Skukuza 2009 has taken issues a step further and asked how freshwater ecosystems can be better conserved in the face of a changing climate.

Water transfers aren't always the answer, says a report from WWF Germany after seven cases studies in the world including south-north transfers in China.