Jackie King (1945 – January 2025) was a South African water scientist. She was an internationally recognized aquatic ecosystems researcher and advocate for maintaining environmental flows in rivers that were being considered for development. Her work influenced water resource management policies worldwide, among others stimulating inclusion of environmental flows for river maintenance in South Africa's 1998 National Water Act, recognition of the need to compensate downstream communities for deterioration of river health in the Lesotho Highlands Water Project, and awareness of environmental flows in the work of the Mekong River Commission.
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