Sentences with phrase «environmental flows»

While I would love to see all rivers flow freely, a pragmatic approach is to ensure environmental flows in the rivers.

Current environmental flows do not contribute to greater erosion than would occur under regulated flows.

«The importance of environmental flows for the rivers and wetlands of the Murray - Darling Basin can not be underestimated; they are critical for such wetlands as the Macquarie Marshes where we have international responsibilities.»

Spring environmental flows improved native vegetation abundance and diversity along areas of riverbank.

Providing environmental flow into the Coorong was a priority for the Commonwealth Environmental Water Holder in 2015 - 16.

Collectively, the results underscore the importance of Commonwealth and other held environmental water for maintaining and improving the ecological condition of these two waterways, and improve our ability to deliver targeted environmental flows into the future.

Consultation on the 2017 — 18 plan has occurred with the New South Wales (NSW) Office of Environment and Heritage, NSW Department of Primary Industries - Fisheries, Macquarie - Cudgegong Environmental Flows Reference Group and WaterNSW.

The Macquarie - Cudgegong Environmental Flows Reference Group provided advice in planning and designing the action.

Benefits of weir pool raising: Flowing habitat for fish: Potterwalkagee Creek (Mulcra Island) receiving environmental flows as a result of raising the Lock 9 weir pool in 2014 - 15.

Environmental flows helped improve vegetation condition and water quality, as well as supporting the breeding of frogs such as the spotted marsh, barking marsh and Peron's tree frog.

Planned «hydro - cues» — or adding additional environmental flows from Eildon Weir to the Goulburn River — should also be abandoned.

Areas of the bank inundated by the spring environmental flow events had improved vegetation abundance and diversity.

These water sources together contributed to meeting environmental flow targets in lower Broken Creek.

the impact of threats such as pests, grazing or poor water quality on ecological improvements through environmental flows.

«For example, improving vegetation condition is a naturally slow process but monitoring in the Goulburn River found environmental flows during summer 2014 and autumn 2015 had encouraged bank - stabilising plant growth,» he said.

The Commonwealth Environmental Water Holder and specialist staff of the Commonwealth Environmental Water Office are focussed on designing environmental flows in partnership with State and local water delivery partners, to improve connections along rivers and floodplains and between wetlands, particularly to those sites that support nationally threatened species and are of international importance (Ramsar listed wetlands).

«For South Australia, we clearly want people to stick to the plan and the plan requires the return of certain environmental flows to this state.»

Environmental flows down the Darling Anabranch from Lake Cawndilla have converged with the Murray River downstream of Wentworth creating a fish highway not seen for three years.

The study also examines the impact of increased environmental flows provided under the Murray - Darling Basin plan.

For example, intra-strain cooperative behaviors are more likely to be evolutionarily stable when different cell lineages are segregated in space, with typical interaction distances between cells being strongly influenced by the diffusivity of secreted products, biofilm architecture, and environmental flow conditions [16 — 19].

My research group (Risk and Sustainable Management Group) presented a paper on this topic, and a number of others on modelling risk and uncertainty and the complex trade - offs between environmental flows, trees for carbon capture and irrigated agriculture.

Her career has emphasized applied research and practice in a wide range of water resource management issues — including integrated watershed management, environmental flows assessment, ecosystem services quantification, and innovative financial mechanisms such as wetland banking, and investments in watershed services (IWS).

As Arizona works toward new water laws, more should be done to bring transparency to the policy process and prioritize environmental flows, say members of the Sustainable Water Workgroup.5 months ago

Thirdly, the full and immediate implementation of Water Reform Plan including appropriate environmental flows is required.

The flow regime provided a series of environmental flows in the mid and lower Murray, to achieve whole of system benefits from Hume Dam through to the Coorong, Lower Lakes and Murray Mouth.

As such, while there is a high need for environmental flows in the Lower Darling River, it is unlikely that the Commonwealth Environmental Water Holder will be able to assist in meeting this need.

The Commonwealth Environmental Water Holder works closely with local waterway managers to ascertain whether providing environmental flows are likely to have a significant effect — the volumes and flows required to disperse blooms or dilute hypoxic blackwater events are often beyond what the Commonwealth Environmental Water Holder holds or what can be delivered in regulated systems.

Golden perch also exhibited strong movement responses to environmental flows, mostly moving down the river to spawning areas.

Golden perch exhibited a strong spawning result to spring environmental flows, with eggs and larvae being collected in numbers never before seen following environmental flows.

Movement of native fish species, particularly golden perch and spangled perch was facilitated by the environmental flow and connection between the Macquarie and Barwon rivers.

The Technical Report, which provides a comprehensive assessment of ecological outcomes to environmental flows in the Edward - Wakool Selected Area in 2014 - 15, including details on data analysis techniques and statistical outputs, is expected to be published by late February 2016.

«As water managers, we need to be prepared to actively manage our water holdings to get the best outcome from every drop - whether that is through using the water for environmental flows or by trading it.»

the links between ecological responses to environmental flows and changes in condition, for example fish spawning and survival

Carefully managed declines in environmental flows can allow a layer of mud to be deposited onto the riverbank that provides an ideal location for the germination and growth of new plants.

The Commonwealth Environmental Water Office contracted the NSW Department of Primary Industries Fisheries to undertake a short - term monitoring project to assess the response of native fish in the Macquarie River to these environmental flows.

The Government rather confusingly refers to the amendment as an «adjustment to the Sustainable Diversion Limits (SDL)» in the Northern Basin — «recovering water» from «environmental flows» rather than «allowing irrigators to use it for commercial gain».

It appears that lobbying from Big Ag — in particular the cotton industry, which by its own admission uses a staggering 26 % of all Australian agricultural irrigation water and then exports 99 % of their product — resulted in the proposed amendment to take 70GL out of the system further upstream instead of retaining this resource downstream as environmental flows.

Last year, the Murray - Darling Basin Authority recommended a reduction in environmental flows of 70 gigalitres per year from the Darling River catchments, including a reduction of environmental flows to the internationally important Macquarie Marshes, which the study shows have also suffered a long - term decline in waterbird numbers across most species.

«This reduction in environmental flows would exacerbate the long - term impacts of water resource development,» says Professor Kingsford.

She also served on the Texas Economic Development Commission and the Environmental Flows Study Commission.

We used experimental data to validate the core assumptions of the model framework, which permitted us to make predictions for a broad set of ecological scenarios defined by the intensity of environmental flow, surface colonization density, cell adhesion properties, and the dimensions of the colonized surface.

The scheme will maintain an environmental flow all the time and there will be periodic shut - downs «during high flow events to ensure flooding influences on habitat are maintained».

Jorge Arturo Jiménez, now the director of the NGO Marviva, carried out a study ten years ago on the environmental flow of the Tempisque.

One of the biggest challenges for hurricane modeling is creating a model that can accurately depict the large - scale, environmental flow of the atmosphere that is largely responsible for steering the hurricane, while at the same time representing the finer scale details of the inner core region that determine the intensity of the storm.

As a result, many riverine ecosystems depend on mandated «environmental flows» released by upstream dams, which become a point of contention during critically dry periods (5).