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Water resources management is a key element of Brazil's strategy to promote sustainable growth and a more equitable and inclusive society. Brazil's achievements over the past 70 years have been closely linked to the development of hydraulic infrastructure for hydroelectric power generation and just recently to the development of irrigation infrastructure, especially in the Northeast region.
A basin committee for the Alto Tietê basin, which covers the entire area of the MRSP and supplies half of its water, brings together all stakeholders. It has drawn up two master plans for the management of water resources in the basin. The first was approved in 2003 and focused on urban sprawl. The second was approved in 2009 and focused on ...
The NWRP aims to promote water as a resource with economic value and “creates structures for integrated governance of all water uses at the level of the hydrographic basin – river basin councils (RBCs) – that work in tandem with more traditional management such as municipal and state water and environmental agencies”. [24]
Boundaries of Brazil's jurisdictional waters, including the latest continental shelf claims. Brazil's jurisdictional waters (Portuguese: águas jurisdicionais brasileiras, AJB), also known as the Blue Amazon (Amazônia Azul), [a] are the riverine and oceanic spaces over which Brazil exerts some degree of jurisdiction over activities, persons, installations and natural resources through the ...
Das Rãs River; Ratones River; Real River (Brazil) Regame River; Reis Magos River; Represa Grande River; Riachão River (Bahia) Riacho River (Espírito Santo) Ribeira de Iguape River; Ribeira River (Paraíba) Ribeira River (Paraná) Ribeirão River (Araraduara River) Rio de Janeiro (Bahia) Riozinho River (Amazonas) Riozinho River (Braço Menor ...
Other countries, notably France and Spain which both have a long tradition of well-established river basin organizations (see fr:Agence de l'eau and es:Confederación hidrográfica), are represented both at the Ministerial level and by river basin organizations. Algeria, Brazil and Mexico, which have all established river basin organizations ...
In the murky waters of a river in Brazil, an “armored” creature swam along. The animal’s coloring helped it blend in with underwater caves and rocky outcroppings — but not well enough.
Integrated urban water management in Aracaju, the capital city of the Brazilian State of Sergipe (SSE) has been and still is a challenging prospect.Home to half a million people, Aracaju is located in a tropical coastal zone within a semi-arid state and receives below average rainfall of 1,200 mm/year where average rainfall in Latin America is higher at 1,556 mm/yr. (Source:FAO 2000) Most of ...