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Tag: Chile

  • Lessons from the California Environmental Flows Framework and Opportunities for Chile

    By Camila Boettiger, Karrigan Börk, Roberto Ponce Oliva, Diego Rivera, Jay Lund, and Sarah Yarnell Managing waterways for ecosystems with minimal loss to existing water uses is increasingly difficult. As we’ve discussed in the first two blogs in this series (here and here, now with Spanish language translations), California and Chile both struggle with this challenge. Both…

  • A Functional Flows approach for Environmental Flows in Chile

    by Sarah Yarnell, Diego Rivera Salazar, Camila Boettiger, and Jay Lund Countries, regions, and river basins globally are struggling to provide and manage flows in rivers for ecosystems.  One approach, of many, is a Functional Flows approach, because it seeks to provide a range of streamflows over the year and between years to support fundamental…

  • Minimum Flow Laws in California and Chile

    By Camila Boettiger, Karrigan Börk, Roberto Ponce Oliva, Diego Rivera, Jay Lund, and Sarah Yarnell California and Chile share a history of water allocation with little regard for instream uses of water, especially environmental uses. In California, for example, many water rights were obtained with no consideration of the environmental impacts of the water use,…