NeWater - Environmental Flows and Ecosystem Services. A Framework for Implementing Environmental Flows in the Amudarya Basin

NeWater outputs are a stepping stone in the process of moving from current water management concepts to more flexible and adaptive regimes. Within Work package 2.3 water quality aspects were related to water quantity aspects and water ecological aspects. The focus was on new approaches to balancing water quantity and water quality for adaptive management. The aim of Task 2.3.3 was to develop and apply strategies for incorporating environmental flows and ecosystem services into river basin management. The focus was on the Amudarya basin, which is shared between Afghanistan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan and Turkmenistan.