Healthy water ecosystems simultaneously serve multiple aspects
of human well-being, especially among poor communities living
close to the land-water interface. Ecosystem services have real
economic value today and special importance in mitigating future
problems and economic losses related to climate change.
To preserve and benefit from these services, water managers must ensure that an environmental flow regime is maintained
in rivers and wetlands. The report highlights the connection
between flows, ecosystem services and human well-being
and concludes that environmental flows and the ecosystem
services they support are critical to achieving all eight of the
United Nation