Stockholm International Water Institute » environmental flows http://www.siwi.org Water Wise World Wed, 18 Sep 2013 12:00:33 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 The Swedish Environmental Flows Initiative http://www.siwi.org/publication/the-swedish-environmental-flows-initiative/ http://www.siwi.org/publication/the-swedish-environmental-flows-initiative/#comments Thu, 15 Nov 2012 16:35:50 +0000 admin http://www.siwi.org/publication/the-swedish-environmental-flows-initiative/ The Swedish Environmental Flows Initiative, established in 2007, engages a wide range of actors in Sweden and internationally around the concept of environmental flows. The initiative raises awareness, increases knowledge and facilitates an integration of environmental flows into national and global policies and frameworks.

]]> http://www.siwi.org/publication/the-swedish-environmental-flows-initiative/feed/ 0 Securing Water for Ecosystems and Human Well-being: The Importance of Environmental Flows http://www.siwi.org/publication/securing-water-for-ecosystems-and-human-well-being-the-importance-of-environmental-flows/ http://www.siwi.org/publication/securing-water-for-ecosystems-and-human-well-being-the-importance-of-environmental-flows/#comments Sun, 15 Nov 2009 16:44:13 +0000 admin http://www.siwi.org/publication/securing-water-for-ecosystems-and-human-well-being-the-importance-of-environmental-flows/ The quantity, quality and timing of water flows required to sustain ecosystems and the valuable services they provide are referred to as Environmental Flows. To preserve and benefit from these services, water managers must ensure that an Environmental Flow regime is maintained in rivers and wetlands.

This report highlights the connection between flows, ecosystem services and human well-being and concludes that environmental flows and the ecosystem services they support are critical to improve human well-being and achieving all eight of the United Nation’s Millennium Development Goals.

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