The environmental flows implementation challenge: Insights and recommendations across water‐limited systems

SM Wineland, H Bașağaoğlu, J Fleming… - Wiley …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Environmental flows (e‐flows) are powerful tools for sustaining freshwater biodiversity and
ecosystem services, but their widespread implementation faces numerous social, political …

Western Canadian freshwater availability: Current and future vulnerabilities

B Bonsal, RR Shrestha, Y Dibike… - Environmental …, 2020 - cdnsciencepub.com
The western cordillera supplies freshwater across much of western Canada mainly through
meltwater from snow and ice. This “alpine water tower” has been, and is projected to be …

ML-based streamflow prediction in the upper Colorado River Basin using climate variables time series data

P Hosseinzadeh, A Nassar, SF Boubrahimi, SM Hamdi - Hydrology, 2023 - mdpi.com
Streamflow prediction plays a vital role in water resources planning in order to understand
the dramatic change of climatic and hydrologic variables over different time scales. In this …

Small increases in stream drying can dramatically reduce ecosystem connectivity

MC Malish, S Gao, D Kopp, Y Hong, DC Allen… - …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Habitat fragmentation drives biodiversity loss in rivers around the world. Although the effects
of anthropogenic barriers on river connectivity are well known, there has been little research …

Spatial planning for water sustainability projects under climate uncertainty: Balancing human and environmental water needs

RE Fovargue, S Rezapour, D Rosendahl… - Environmental …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Societies worldwide make large investments in the sustainability of integrated human-
freshwater systems, but uncertainty about water supplies under climate change poses a …

Is there enough water? How bearish and bullish outlooks are linked to decision maker perspectives on environmental flows

SM Wineland, R Fovargue, B York, AJ Lynch… - Journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
Policies that mandate environmental flows (e-flows) can be powerful tools for freshwater
conservation, but implementation of these policies faces many hurdles. To better understand …

Stochastic mathematical models to balance human and environmental water needs and select the best conservation policy for drought-prone river basins

MA Farzaneh, S Rezapour, R Fovargue… - Journal of Cleaner …, 2021 - Elsevier
In this paper, a multi-objective, multi-period, and stochastic mathematical model is
developed to identify drought-resilient strategies for balancing human and environmental …

Water transfer contributes to water resources management: Crisis mitigation for future water allocation in the Yellow River basin

CY Zhang, T Oki - Iscience, 2024 - cell.com
Optimizing water allocation is a crucial strategy for water planning in large basins, such as
the Yellow River basin. The transforming water supply pattern, triggered by inter-basin water …

Small tradeoffs between social equity and conservation outcomes in a freshwater payment for ecosystem services scheme

SM Wineland, S Rezapour… - Ecological …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Conservation programs around the world aim to balance social equity, economic efficiency,
and conservation outcomes. Tradeoffs among these three objectives necessarily exist but …

Concurrently assessing water supply and demand is critical for evaluating vulnerabilities to climate change

SA Hall, A Whittemore, J Padowski… - JAWRA Journal of …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Aligning water supply with demand is a challenge, particularly in areas with large seasonal
variation in precipitation and those dominated by winter precipitation. Climate change is …