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The main stakeholders in water management in MRSP are the state government, the state water and sanitation utility Sabesp and 35 municipal governments. A basin committee for the Alto Tietê basin, which supplies the other half of the water for the MRSP, brings together all stakeholders. The legal framework at the state level is based on two key ...
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.
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 ...
The Transfer of the São Francisco River is a large-scale interbasin transfer to the dry sertão in the four northeastern states of Ceará, Rio Grande do Norte, Paraíba and Pernambuco in Brazil. The project, which was given the green light to go ahead by Brazil's government in 2005, is estimated to cost US$2 billion and is expected to improve ...
Map of Brazil in the 2024 School Atlas, including the EEZ (within the dark blue border) and the extended continental shelf proposals (shaded in a darker blue without a border) Brazilian jurisdictional waters ( Portuguese : águas jurisdicionais brasileiras , AJB) are the riverine and oceanic spaces over which Brazil exerts some degree of ...
MANAUS, Brazil (Reuters) -The Amazon River fell to its lowest level in over a century on Monday at the heart of the Brazilian rainforest as a record drought upends the lives of hundreds of ...
The Brazilian Highway System (Portuguese: Sistema Nacional de Rodovias) is a network of trunk roads administered by the Ministry of Transport of Brazil. It is constructed, managed and maintained by the National Department of Transport Infrastructure (DNIT), a federal agency linked to the Ministry of Infrastructure, and the public works departments of state governments.
Construction was started in 1961 by President Juscelino Kubitschek. The road would be used to transport cassiterite to industries in the east, and to open the west for settlement. [citation needed] BR-364 and the BR-230 Trans-Amazonian Highway were intended to integrate, protect and bring people to the "undeveloped, unproductive and empty ...