International Waters learning Exchange & Resource Network

River Environmental Flow Assessment with holistic approach: testing a methodology for Azerbaijan and Georgia

In 2018 two pilot basins in Azerbaijan and one in Georgia were selected as pilot sub-basin to test an Environmental Flow Assessment methodology. An experts’ group including experts of different disciplines (hydrology, river morphology, ecology, water quality) was set up to monitor the rivers and assess the environmental flow following an “holistic approach”. The river monitoring activity and the experimental ecological flow assessment of the Aragvi river was supervised by an international expert in river ecology. The monitoring activity allows the characterization of 4 water bodies on each pilot basin in Azerbaijan (the Shamkirchay and Alijanchay) and of 6 water bodies in the Aragvi pilot basin in Georgia. Based on the results of the monitoring activity, following the holist methodology through an expert based approach, for each water body the three main components (survival flow, low flows, high flows) of the EF regime have been estimated

6962: Advancing IWRM Across the Kura River Basin through Implementation of the Transboundary Agreed Actions and National Plans

05 jul. 2021

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River Environmental Flow Assessment with holistic approach: testing a methodology for Azerbaijan and Georgia.pdf