• Why are floods and high flows an important part of the natural flow patterns and overall ecology of rivers, just as low flow and drought are for some systems?
• Why are floods and high flows, as well as droughts and low flows, an important part of the natural flow patterns and overall ecology of rivers?
• How has flow management changed the natural flow of water, and impacted on biodiversity and water quality, including water temperature?
• How have changes to flows in urban and rural catchments impacted on water quality and biodiversity in our waterways and marine environments? Consider issues such as stormwater infrastructure, channel development, irrigation, building of weirs and dams, removal of native vegetation, compaction of soils and removal of woody debris.

More Comprehensive

- Flows maintain natural services and benefits
  of rivers.

The Nature Conservancy
http://www.freshwaters.org/docs/natflow.pdf

- Natural Advantage: A Blueprint for
  Sustainable Australia.
- Comprehensive overview of sustainable
  development, including flow issues.

Australian Conservation Foundation
http://www.acfonline.org.au/asp/pages/
publicationtyp.asp?IdPublicationTyp=7

- Biodiversity Management Issues brochures.
- Thorough and informative, covering changes
  to natural flow patterns.
- PDF Download is lengthy but worth the wait.

NRE VIC
http://www.nre.vic.gov.au/4A25676D00283C7B/
BCView/042AB8B88FC3FE6F4A256AB90008
AAAA?OpenDocument

- Dams and weirs.
- The environmental issues.

Australian Conservation Foundation
http://www.acfonline.org.au/asp/pages/
document.asp?IdDoc=384

- River flows.
- The environmental issues.

Australian Conservation Foundation
http://www.acfonline.org.au/asp/pages/
document.asp?IdDoc=383

- Environmental flows in the Murray River.

Murray-Darling Basin Commission
http://www.mdbc.gov.au/naturalresources/
policies_strategies/projectscreens/flowproject.htm

- Why flows are important.
- Covers the main issues in NSW.

NSW EPA
http://www.epa.nsw.gov.au/soe/soe2000/cw/
cw_flows.htm