A widespread response to the pressures placed on the ecological condition of rivers is the design and implementation of environmental flow regimes in domestic regulatory frameworks for water. Environmental interests in water are not confined to hydrological functioning but include relationships between water resources and human cultural and economic livelihoods, including those of Indigenous communities. Since the mid-1980s there has been some provision for environmental flows in Chilean law. However, the legal and policy requirements are limited in scope and have been poorly implemented by regulatory institutions. In this article we critically examine the treatment of environmental flows in Chilean legal and policy frameworks. We argue that there is an urgent need for a comprehensive minimum flow regime in Chile to protect the environmental qualities of rivers, which must also reflect and provide for Indigenous water rights and interests. The developing constitutional crisis in Chile, the most significant political crisis since the end of the Pinochet dictatorship (1973–90), highlights the need to revisit the sensitive and unresolved issues of water governance and equity.

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迈向智利的整体环境流动制度：提供生态系统健康和土著权利

对河流生态状况压力的广泛反应是在国内水监管框架中设计和实施环境流量制度。水的环境利益不仅限于水文功能，还包括水资源与人类文化和经济生计之间的关系，包括土著社区的关系。自 1980 年代中期以来，智利法律对环境流动作出了一些规定。但是，法律和政策要求的范围有限，监管机构执行不力。在本文中，我们批判性地研究了智利法律和政策框架中对环境流量的处理。我们认为，智利迫切需要一个全面的最小流量制度来保护河流的环境质量，这也必须反映和提供土著水的权利和利益。智利正在发展的宪法危机是自皮诺切特独裁统治（1973-90 年）结束以来最严重的政治危机，凸显了重新审视水治理和公平等敏感和未解决问题的必要性。