Understanding the response of river flow and ecosystem attributes to climate and anthropogenic impacts in diverse environments

Understanding the causes and impacts of river flow regime alteration and the historical trends in flow attributes would help deal with its major consequences such as freshwater scarcity, fish habitat fragmentation, dust storms due to lake shrinkage, and many socio-political issues. The results of such studies will address how uncoordinated development in rivers upstream coupled with climate change and variability will result in downstream flow deficit. This will help policymakers with coordinating long-term development plans, especially in arid and semi-arid areas of the world, to have more efficient investments and sustainable communities and ecosystems.