Brown Bag Lunch with TNC's Jeff Opperman: Integrating environmental flows into water management and policy

Overview of The Nature Conservancy's Environmental Flows Program Water planners around the world are struggling to secure adequate freshwater supplies to meet today's needs for people and nature, while protecting water resources for future generations. The Nature Conservancy understands that the needs of man and nature are inextricably intertwined, and with careful planning and management, both of these needs can be met with minimal alterations and impacts to our rivers. Every river system has a natural, seasonal flow pattern—often referred to as the environmental flow—that sustains the health of the ecosystem. The Conservancy is providing global leadership in environmental flow science and management to help government agencies, multilateral institutions, water management agencies, the hydropower industry, scientists and other non-governmental organizations around the world to improve ecosystem health and implement  sustainable solutions.