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The 7,917 hectares (19,560 acres) Cantareira State Park, created in 1962, protects a large part of the metropolitan São Paulo water supply. [2] In the 1970s the government of the state of São Paulo took a much more active role in water management. As in other Brazilian states at the time, a state water supply and sanitation company was ...
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.
Sistema Cantareira (Cantareira system) is a water supply system in the state of São Paulo, Brazil. It is composed of five interconnected reservoirs that provide water to 9 million people in the São Paulo metropolitan area. [1] The system is managed by Sabesp, São Paulo's state water management company.
River Basin Management Plans are a requirement of the Water Framework Directive [1] and a means of achieving the protection, improvement and sustainable use of the water environment across Europe. This includes surface freshwaters (including lakes, streams and rivers), groundwater, ecosystems such as some wetlands that depend on groundwater ...
Maici River is a river of Amazonas state in north-western Brazil. The Maici River is a left tributary of the dos Marmelos River . It flows through the Humaitá National Forest , a 473,155 hectares (1,169,190 acres) sustainable use conservation unit created in 1998.
This, [5] and other early work that dealt with the River Nile [6] [7] and the Columbia River [8] are discussed, in a wider context, in a book published by the Harvard Water Resources Seminar, that contains the sentence just quoted. [9] Another early model that integrated many submodels for basin chemical hydrology was the Stanford Watershed ...
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 ...
The Parnaíba River (Portuguese: Rio Parnaíba [paɾnaˈibɐ]) is a river in Brazil, which forms the border between the states of Maranhão and Piauí. Its main course is 1,400 km (870 mi) long and the Parnaíba River Basin covers 330,000 km 2 (130,000 sq mi). [ 1 ]