New Environmental Flows Database

This is to let you know about a new on-line database - a collection of actual estimates of environmental flows worldwide.  It is the first of the three at the site: http://dw.iwmi.org/ehdb/wetland/index.asp. The Environmental Flows (EF) database has been developed by The International Water Management Institute (IWMI) in collaboration with The Nature Conservancy (TNC) and UNEP GEMS/Water Programme as part of the activities of UNESCO Task Force on Eco-Hydrology.

The EF database may serve as the information source on how much water is actually prescribed or provided for aquatic ecosystems in different parts of the world and where in the world such allocations are actually made.  It can support the development of global EF standards and environmental flow assessment methods.

At present, the database has a limited number of entries collected by the developers.  What is needed now is a global effort to populate it. Your help here will be most valuable.  Please submit your entries: the on-line entry form is available on the above web site.  It would also be most appreciated if you could distribute this message further through your networks.