Accounting for environmental flow requirements in global water assessments

Pastor, A. V.; Ludwig, F.; Biemans, H.; Hoff, H.; Kabat, P.

doi:10.5194/hess-18-5041-2014

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Articles | Volume 18, issue 12

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11 Dec 2014

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Accounting for environmental flow requirements in global water assessments

A. V. Pastor, F. Ludwig, H. Biemans, H. Hoff, and P. Kabat

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Short summary

Freshwater ecosystems encompass the most threatened species on earth. Environmental flow requirements need to be addressed globally to provide sufficient water for humans and nature. We present a comparison of five environmental flow methods validated with locally calculated EFRs. We showed that methods based on monthly average flow such as the variable monthly flow method are more reliable than methods based on annual thresholds. A range of EFRs was calculated for large river basins.