HSAF - An assessment tool for sustainability

Hydropower Sustainability Assessment Forum (HSAF) is a cross-sectoral partnership that aims to establish a broadly endorsed sustainability assessment tool to measure and guide performance in the hydro power sector. Hydro power as a low greenhouse gas generator and a strategy to address water storage and management has a valuable contribution to make in addressing global warming. The HSAF has already commenced an analysis of what future pathways for the Protocol will have the most influence on lifting sustainability performance in the sector, and the requirements to develop those pathways. The need for a simple measurement tool that is practical objective and able to be implemented across a range of contexts has been an objective in development of the IHA Sustainability Assessment Protocol 2006 and is a key consideration in the work of the Forum.