Research, project updates, and perspectives from Confluvio Consulting.https://www.confluvio.comhttps://www.confluvio.com/insights/hydrosheds-2-new-global-hydrographyhttps://www.confluvio.com/insights/hydrosheds-2-new-global-hydrographyRefined global river networks and catchment delineations derived from TanDEM-X elevation data.Tue, 07 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.confluvio.com/insights/icold-2026-harmonizing-dam-and-reservoir-informationhttps://www.confluvio.com/insights/icold-2026-harmonizing-dam-and-reservoir-informationThe Global Dam Watch database harmonizes more than 40,000 dam and reservoir records and co-registers them to a digital river network to support water resources planning.Thu, 01 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.confluvio.com/insights/eu-hydro-2https://www.confluvio.com/insights/eu-hydro-2An introduction to the next-generation reference hydrographic dataset for Europe.Mon, 23 Jun 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.confluvio.com/insights/global-land-and-wetlands-database-glwd-v2https://www.confluvio.com/insights/global-land-and-wetlands-database-glwd-v2GLWD v2.0 harmonizes satellite and ground-based datasets into a global map of lakes, rivers and wetlands at roughly 500-metre resolution, covering about 18.2 million km² of wetland.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.confluvio.com/insights/threats-to-fish-migration-global-swimways-lower-mekonghttps://www.confluvio.com/insights/threats-to-fish-migration-global-swimways-lower-mekongThis study applies the Global Swimways concept to the Lower Mekong, identifying migration routes that are critical for fish and the pressures that threaten them.Mon, 01 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.confluvio.com/insights/balancing-renewable-energy-and-river-resourceshttps://www.confluvio.com/insights/balancing-renewable-energy-and-river-resourcesThe paper argues that moving from individual hydropower project assessments to energy system planning can balance renewable energy expansion with the protection of river resources.Sun, 01 Jan 2023 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.confluvio.com/insights/global-hydro-environmental-river-characteristicshttps://www.confluvio.com/insights/global-hydro-environmental-river-characteristicsHydroATLAS provides standardized environmental attributes for watersheds and river reaches worldwide.Fri, 01 Apr 2022 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.confluvio.com/insights/connectivity-corridors-amazonhttps://www.confluvio.com/insights/connectivity-corridors-amazonThe study maps freshwater connectivity corridors in the Amazon Basin and shows how proposed dams could reduce the free-flowing status of rivers important to long-distance migratory species.Sat, 01 Jan 2022 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.confluvio.com/insights/hydrowastehttps://www.confluvio.com/insights/hydrowasteHydroWASTE is a spatially explicit global database of 58,502 wastewater treatment plants, georeferenced to a high-resolution river network.Sat, 01 Jan 2022 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.confluvio.com/insights/identifying-priority-areas-zambiahttps://www.confluvio.com/insights/identifying-priority-areas-zambiaThe study develops an integrated framework to identify priority areas for surface water protection in data-scarce regions, using Zambia as a case study.Fri, 01 Jan 2021 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.confluvio.com/insights/impacts-of-loss-of-free-flowing-rivers-on-global-freshwater-megafaunahttps://www.confluvio.com/insights/impacts-of-loss-of-free-flowing-rivers-on-global-freshwater-megafaunaThe study examines how river fragmentation threatens freshwater megafauna and finds that 94 of 497 remaining free-flowing rivers longer than 500 km could lose that status if all proposed dams were built.Fri, 01 Jan 2021 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.confluvio.com/insights/navigating-trade-offs-between-dams-and-river-conservationhttps://www.confluvio.com/insights/navigating-trade-offs-between-dams-and-river-conservationThe paper quantifies the trade-offs between proposed hydropower dams and river conservation, and sets out a hierarchy of avoid, minimise, restore and mitigate responses.Fri, 01 Jan 2021 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.confluvio.com/insights/mapping-the-worlds-free-flowing-rivershttps://www.confluvio.com/insights/mapping-the-worlds-free-flowing-riversA global assessment of river connectivity and the pressures affecting long, free-flowing rivers.Wed, 08 May 2019 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.confluvio.com/insights/global-assessment-of-antibiotics-in-river-systems-using-a-high-resolution-contaminant-fate-modelhttps://www.confluvio.com/insights/global-assessment-of-antibiotics-in-river-systems-using-a-high-resolution-contaminant-fate-modelThis work develops a high-resolution contaminant fate model to estimate antibiotic emissions and their transport through river networks at global scale.Tue, 01 Jan 2019 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.confluvio.com/insights/eco-tox-water-researchhttps://www.confluvio.com/insights/eco-tox-water-researchThe study applies a spatially explicit contaminant fate model to estimate the eco-toxicological risk of estrogens in China's rivers.Mon, 01 Jan 2018 00:00:00 GMT