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Methodology IUCN

Environmental Flows Toolkit

Step-by-step methods for setting environmental flow requirements in regulated rivers.

description

This toolkit consolidates established environmental-flow methods into a practical sequence, helping teams determine how much water, and with what timing, a river needs to sustain its ecosystems and the people who depend on them.

application

Applied during water-allocation and dam-operation decisions to protect downstream ecosystems while balancing competing demands.