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Liu, S. (author), Zhou, Yangxiao (author), Zang, Yining (author), McClain, M.E. (author), Wang, Xu sheng (author)
The Yongding River (Beijing, China) was dry most times of the year, and groundwater storage was severely depleted. To address this issue, a river rehabilitation project was initiated. A downstream environmental flow release (EFR) project from upstream reservoirs has been implemented since 2019. This study evaluated the impact of EFR by...
journal article 2023
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van Strien, Charlotte (author)
Managing water resources for the future is challenging, given the wide range of climatic and hydrological uncertainty. To support decision makers in formulating robust adaptation plans and finding their way through the broad range of available climate data and models, decision scaling was introduced: an approach for bottom-up climate...
master thesis 2022
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Owusu, A.G. (author), Mul, Marloes (author), van der Zaag, P. (author), Slinger, J (author)
The provision of flows for the environment, e-flows, is a means to restore the benefits of naturally flowing rivers. Despite the development of numerous methodologies to determine e-flows and optimize dam releases, actual implementation is relatively limited. Examples of successful e-flows implementation through dam reoperation exist in...
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Salinas Rodriquez, Sergio (author), van de Giesen, N.C. (author), McClain, M.E. (author)
Environmental flow (eflow) reference values play a key role in environmental water science and practice. In Mexico, eflow assessments are set by a norm in which the frequency of occurrence is the managing factor to integrate inter-annual and seasonal flow variability components into environmental water reserves. However, the frequency parameters...
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Abebe, Wubneh B. (author), Tilahun, Seifu A. (author), Moges, Michael M. (author), Wondie, Ayalew (author), Dersseh, Minychl G. (author), McClain, M.E. (author)
As part of water resources management policy, water resources projects undertake environmental flow assessments (EFA) to determine how much water should be maintained or released to the downstream part of rivers to protect the health of aquatic and riparian ecosystems and societal wellbeing. In Ethiopia, EFA is being undertaken mostly in...
review 2022
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Ziere, Koen (author)
In order to find the possibilities of implementation of e-flows in Dutch water management, it is necessary to first explore the current role of e-flows in projects, plans and policies. Data collection is primarily done through interviews. In addition to this, analysis of policy documents is used as a method of data collection. The collected...
master thesis 2021
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Irias Mata, Marisol (author)
Punchiná reservoir is part of the San Carlos Hydroelectric Power Plant, situated in the Guatapé watershed. The Guatapé river is an affluent of the Samaná Norte river, which in turn is an affluent of the Magdalena river. San Carlos Hydroelectric Project uses the waters from the rivers San Carlos and Guatapé and discharges the turbined flow...
student report 2021
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Salinas Rodriquez, Sergio (author), Barba-Macías, Everardo (author), Mata, Dulce Infante (author), Nava-López, Mariana Zareth (author), Neri-Flores, Iris (author), Varela, Ricardo Domínguez (author), González Mora, Ignacio D. (author)
Almost a decade ago, the Mexican government targeted to establish environmental water reserves (EWR)—a volume of water allocated for ecological protection based on the Environmental Flow Mexican Norm (eflows, NMX-AA-159-SCFI-2012, ratified in 2017)—in strategic low-pressured for water use and high conservation importance river basins throughout...
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Abebe, Wubneh B. (author), Tilahun, Seifu A. (author), Moges, Michael M. (author), Wondie, Ayalew (author), Derseh, Minychl G. (author), Nigatu, Teshager A. (author), Mhiret, Demesew A. (author), Steenhuis, Tammo S. (author), Camp, Marc Van (author), Walraevens, Kristine (author), McClain, M.E. (author)
The sustainable development of water resources includes retaining some amount of the natural flow regime in water bodies to protect and maintain aquatic ecosystem health and the human livelihoods and wellbeing dependent upon them. Although assessment of environmental flows is now occurring globally, limited studies have been carried out in...
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Salinas Rodriquez, Sergio (author), Sánchez-Navarro, Rafael (author), Barrios-Ordóñez, J. Eugenio (author)
Hydrological methodologies are the most efficient approaches for environmental flow (eflow) assessments. This paper presents a hydrological methodology for determining eflows in rivers with scarce development to promote proactive environmental water allocations that limit flow alteration and unsustainable water use. The analysis includes the...
journal article 2020
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Owusu, A.G. (author), Mul, Marloes (author), van der Zaag, P. (author), Slinger, J (author)
Dam construction and operation are known to alter the hydrology of rivers and degrade riverine ecosystems. In recent decades, the call to reverse these negative impacts by re-operating dams has become stronger. Dams can support riverine ecosystems by releasing environmental flows (e-flows). Unfortunately, despite the development of numerous...
journal article 2020
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Dehghanipour, A. (author), Schoups, G.H.W. (author), Zahabiyoun, Bagher (author), Babazadeh, Hossein (author)
Competition for water between agriculture and the environment is a growing problem in irrigated regions across the globe, especially in endorheic basins with downstream freshwater lakes impacted by upstream irrigation withdrawals. This study presents and applies a novel simulation-optimization (SO) approach for identifying water management...
journal article 2020
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Wu, Miao (author), Chen, Ang (author), Zhang, Xingnan (author), McClain, M.E. (author)
The rapid economic development of river basins depends on the excessive use of water resources. China experienced a rapid development of hydropower projects in the last two decades and thus faces many ecological and environmental issues, especially in ecologically sensitive areas. Environmental flow is an important management tool that...
journal article 2020
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Singh, Surabhi (author)
Freshwater biodiversity is in a state of crisis with an annual decline rate of 3.9% compared to 1.1% decline in terrestrial biodiversity (Living Planet Index). The actual decline rate may be higher than estimated as many of the species are data deficient or not yet assessed or became extinct before assessment. We have far surpassed the...
master thesis 2019
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Salinas Rodriquez, Sergio (author)
Environmental flows (e-flows) science has significantly advanced in the last decades. In Mexico, a standard for e-flow assessments was recently published as a regulatory instrument to support water planning and management. However, the appropriateness of the technical procedure in a climate change context has not been investigated. Do the e...
doctoral thesis 2019
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Eulderink, Juliette (author)
Hydrological modifications to the natural flow regime through the regulation of a river threaten the integrity of river ecosystems. In Myanmar, the exponentially growing hydropower sector poses a threat to the ecohydrology of some of the last large free-flowing rivers in the world. This study investigates to what extent the natural flow regime...
master thesis 2019
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Salinas Rodriquez, Sergio (author), Barrios-Ordóñez, Jorge E. (author), Sánchez-Navarro, Rafael (author), Wickel, Albertus J. (author)
Since the Brisbane Declaration in 2007, implementation of environmental flows in public policies has witnessed a steady increase around the globe. Environmental water reserves are an annual volume that is designated to remain in the ecosystem for the sustainable management of river basins. In Mexico, these reserves are determined on the basis...
journal article 2018
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Mwelwa-Mutekenya-Mwelwa, E. (author)
The Middle Zambezi, host to a rich biodiversity, is located in the central part of the Zambezi River Basin which covers eight Southern African Countries. The area is located downstream of three hydropower schemes. In the last decades, the floodplain riparian tree, the Faidherbia albida, vital for the local wild life, has shown a worrying...
doctoral thesis 2016
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McClain, M.E. (author)
Sustainable development in Africa is dependent on increasing use of the continent’s water resources without significantly degrading ecosystem services that are also fundamental to human wellbeing. This is particularly challenging in Africa because of high spatial and temporal variability in the availability of water resources and limited amounts...
journal article 2012
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Meijer, K.S. (author)
This dissertation discusses how the importance of river flow-sustained ecosystems for local communities can be quantified for the purpose of balancing water supply and demand in Integrated Water Resources Management. Due to the development of water resources, for example through the construction of reservoirs, the natural flow regime is altered...
doctoral thesis 2007
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