| Towards a shared vision for the Sava River |
 | 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 |
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| Flood Pulse Symposium coming up 1st – 5th February in the Okavango Delta, Botswana |
 | The Flood Pulse Symposium will address the important effects of pulsing hydrologic cycles on the functioning of wetlands. Focusing on inland wetlands, it will have an emphasis on the importance of flood pulses for wetland flooding and linked responses in biodiversity, ecosystem functioning and human society. Read More |
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| WWF and partners kick off regional programme on environmental flows for the Zambezi |
 | A successful kick-off meeting was held in October 2009 in Lusaka between WWF Country Offices for Zambia, Mozambique, and South Africa and partners (TNC, UNESCO-IHE, International Crane Foundation, GPZ – Zambezi Development Planning Office, and academic institutions of Zambia, Mozambique and Zimbabwe) when an inception phase of 18 months was planned for the Zambezi regional environmental flow programme. Read More |
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| Announcing the launch of the most advanced version of Indicators of Hydrologic Alteration |
 | The Nature Conservancy’s Indicators of Hydrologic Alteration (IHA) program for calculating ecologically relevant statistics from daily streamflow data can now generate flow-duration curves and has an improved algorithm for comparing data from two time periods. Read More |
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| Integrated Basin Flow Management for the sustainable development of the Mekong River Basin |
 | Vithet Srinetr, Environment Programme Coordinator in the Environment Division of the Mekong River Commission Secretariat based in Vientiane (Lao PDR), discusses past experiences and the current activities that the Mekong River Commission has initiated towards environmental flows. Read More |
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| Mexican government announcing publication of a national standard |
 | On 9 November 2009, during the World Wilderness Congress in Mérida (Mexico), the Director General of National Water Commission (CONAGUA) publicly announced his agency’s commitment to promulgate a standard on environmental flows in Mexico by 2010. The technical standard is likely to prescribe a hierarchy of methods for determining environmental flows, including an Ecological Limits of Hydrologic Alteration (ELOHA)-like framework for regional assessment. Read More |
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| BC Hydro’s Water Use Planning program |
 | The electric utility, BC Hydro, is implementing environmental monitoring programmes, which study issues such as total gas pressure and migratory bird use of drawdown zones or survey the life history of various fish species. Read More |
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| Canada's Rivers at Risk: a report by WWF |
 | "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. Read More |
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| Sharing the benefits around large dams in West Africa |
 | Major dams have long been criticized by NGOs, however they need not necessarily spell disaster for the communities they displace, if benefits from the dam can be shared by stakeholders. Read More |
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| Freshwater Biology Special Issue “Environmental Flows: Science and Management” |
 | Edited by Angela H. Arthington, Robert J. Naiman, Michael E. McClain, and Christer Nilsson, this special issue of Freshwater Biology is due for release in January 2010. Early views of articles in advance of print are available online at: Read More |
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| Other recent publications on environmental flows |
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| Southeast Instream Flow Network website launched |
 | The Southeast Instream Flow Network (SIFN) assists 15 southeastern states in the United States in instituting protective environmental flow policies. Read More |
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