This project, launched by the New Water Culture Foundation, aims to evaluate how climate change forecasts affect the suitability of the methodologies applied to establish ecological flows, as well as the effectiveness of their application. The project has the support of the Biodiversity Foundation, through its call for grants.

Within the framework of the initiative ‘Ecological flows: assessment of experiences in Spanish basins and adaptive proposals in the face of climate change’, at the national level, a comparative analysis of a technical-environmental and legal-institutional nature of the ecological flows established and applied in the different demarcations has been carried out. The ecological flow regime in 7 Spanish river basin districts has been evaluated and the foreseeable impacts of climate change on these ecological flows have been analysed. This assessment has made it possible to identify a wide range of improvements in the methodologies applied, as well as in the regulatory framework of ecological flows and in different technical and environmental aspects of them, in order to improve the ecological status of rivers and their capacity to adapt to climate change. All the results obtained, as well as the proposals for improvement and a didactic guide on ecological flows, are available and downloadable by anyone interested on the website of the New Water Culture Foundation (www.fnca.eu).