CONTENTS -- Foreword -- About the Authors -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Overview -- Environmental Flows: Science, Decision Making, and Development Assistance -- Environmental Flow Implementation Case Studies -- Mainstreaming Implications -- Notes -- PART I Context and Rationale -- CHAPTER 1 Introduction -- The World Bank and Environmental Flows -- Objectives of the Report -- Methodology -- Organization of Report -- Notes -- PART II Environmental Flows: Science, Decision Making, and Development Assistance -- CHAPTER 2 Environmental Flows in Water Resources Decision Making -- Water-Dependent Ecosystem Services -- Environmental Flows: Adoption and Methods -- Environmental Flows and Decision Making -- Environmental Flows in Policies, Plans, and Projects -- Environmental Flows, IWRM, and Environmental Assessment -- Notes -- CHAPTER 3 Environmental Flows and the World Bank -- Country Water Resources Assistance Strategies -- Bank-Netherlands Water Partnership Program -- World Bank Safeguard Policies -- Partner Agency Collaboration -- Notes -- PART III Case Studies of Environmental Flow Implementation -- CHAPTER 4 Case Study Assessment -- Good-Practice Criteria -- Institutional Drivers -- CHAPTER 5 Policy Case Studies: Lessons -- Assessment of Effectiveness -- Institutional Drivers -- Summary of Policy Lessons -- Notes -- CHAPTER 6 Basin Plan Case Studies: Lessons -- Assessment of Effectiveness -- Institutional Drivers -- Summary of Plan Lessons -- Notes -- CHAPTER 7 Project Case Studies: Lessons -- Assessment of Effectiveness -- Institutional Drivers -- Summary of Project Lessons -- Note -- PART IV Mainstreaming Implications -- CHAPTER 8 Achievements and Challenges -- Scientific Achievements -- Integrating Environmental Flows into Decisions -- Plan Achievements -- Infrastructure Projects -- Notes.

CHAPTER 9 Framework for Mainstreaming Environmental Flows -- The Way Forward -- A Framework for Bank Action -- PART V Appendixes -- APPENDIX A: The Brisbane Declaration -- APPENDIX B: Infrastructure Design Features for Environmental Flows from Dams -- APPENDIX C: Background to Environmental Flows -- APPENDIX D: Water Environmental Issues in Country Water Resources Assistance Strategies -- APPENDIX E: Environmental Flow Programs of International Development Organizations and NGOs -- References -- Index -- Boxes -- 1.1 Environmental Flows and IWRM Linkages -- 1.2 Policies, Strategies, and Resources for Supporting Integration of Environmental Flows in World Bank Operations -- 2.1 Examples of Flow-Dependent Ecosystem Services -- 2.2 Environmental Water Trading in Australia -- 3.1 Environmental Flows to the Indus Delta -- 3.2 Proposed Environmental Flows Program for Tanzania -- 3.3 World Bank Safeguard Policies -- 3.4 Designing Hydropower Dams to Include Environmental Flows -- 4.1 Drivers for Environmental Flows in Plans and Projects -- 4.2 Drivers for Environmental Flows in Policies -- 5.1 Managing the Whole Water Cycle -- 5.2 Water Use Conflicts in Usangu Plains, Tanzania -- 6.1 Basin-Level Environmental Flow Assessments -- 6.2 Levels of Environmental Flow Analysis Used in South Africa -- 7.1 The Tarim Basin Restoration -- 7.2 The Senegal Basin Water Charter -- 7.3 Structured Assessment for the Bridge River Reoperation, Canada -- 7.4 Monitoring Program for the Berg River Dam, South Africa -- 7.5 Economic Assessment of Downstream Impacts of the Lesotho Highlands Water Project -- 8.1 Climate Change and Evapotranspiration -- 8.2 Achievements of the Lesotho Highlands Water Project -- C.1 Using Indigenous Knowledge, Rio Patuca, Honduras -- E.1 Flows in the Okavango Basin -- E.2 The Huong River Basin, Vietnam.

E.3 Environmental Sustainability in Southern Africa -- Figures -- 2.1 Water Storage per Capita in Select Countries -- 2.2 Changes in Freshwater Species Population Indices, 1970-1999 -- 2.3 Components of the Flow Regime -- 2.4 Hierarchy of Decisions Leading to Project-level Environmental Flow Allocation -- 3.1 Number of Examinations of Upstream and Downstream Issues in Dam-related Project Documents -- C.1 The Evolution of Dam Planning Practices -- Tables -- 2.1 Estimated Time and Resource Requirements of Select EFA Methods -- 3.1 Biophysical Impacts Included in the Analysis of World Bank-Funded Dam Projects -- 3.2 Inclusion of Environmental Flow Issues in CWRASs -- 3.3 Select BNWPP Assistance to World Bank Projects -- 5.1 Characteristics of Select National Water Policies -- 5.2 Institutional Drivers for Water Policy Reform and Inclusion of Environmental Flows in Policies -- 6.1 Institutional Drivers for Undertaking Environmental Flow Assessments at Basin and Catchment Scales -- 7.1 Characteristics of Project Case Studies -- 7.2 Major Findings from Project Case Studies -- 7.3 The LHWP Economic Rate of Return for Different Flow Scenarios -- 7.4 Lesotho Highlands River Condition Target Monitoring Results -- 7.5 Drivers for New Infrastructure and Restoration Projects -- 9.1 A Framework for Adopting and Integrating Environmental Flows into Bank Work.