OBJECTIVE: To establish a national pact integrating multiple interests of use over water resources, promoting the goals of economic viability, social inclusion, environmental sustainability, and risk control during critical hydrological events.

1. Third Biennial International Waters Conference
Global Environment Facility (GEF)
BRAZILIAN SUCCESSFUL EXPERIENCES
IN WATER RESOURCES MANAGEMENT
JOÃO BOSCO SENRA
SECRETARY OF WATER RESOURCES (SRH)
MINISTRY OF ENVIRONMENT (MMA)
June/2005
Salvador- Bahia - Brazil

2. Legal and Institutional Framework
 Federal Constitution 1988
 The Water Resources Secretariat – SRH/MMA was
established in 1995.
 Water Law (9.433/97)
Creates the National Water Resources Management
System;
Enacts the NationalWater Resources Policy;
 The National Water Agency - ANA was established in
2000.

3. Water Resources Management in Brazil
CNRH
National Water
Resources Policy
Basin Committee Federal entity
Basin Agency
CERH State Entity
Basin Committee
Basin = Spatial unit for the implementation of the Water Policy
Integrated Water
Resources Management
Implementation of
the National Water
Resources Policy
State Water
Resources Policy
Implementation of
the State Water
Resources Policy
State Federal
MMA-SRH
ANA
State entity State entity
Basin Agency

4. National Water Resources Council
 Highest deliberative forum in the National Water
Resources Policy.
 Composition: Federal Government, State Councils,
Users, and Civil Society Organizations.
 Nine Technical Chambers, which include, among
others, one dedicated to Transboundary Water
Resources Management.

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6. Basin Committees
under Federal Domain
Approved by CNRH
Rio Paraíba do Sul - CEIVAP
Rios Piracicaba,Capivari, Jundiaí - PCJ
Rio São Francisco
Rio Doce
Rio Verde Grande
Rio Paranaíba
Rios Pomba e Muriaé

7. NATIONAL WATER RESOURCES POLICY
GENERAL GUIDELINES
 Strengthening environmental (SISNAMA) and water resources
management (SINGREH) national systems;
 Water as a cross-cutting theme;
 Participation and Social Accountability;
 Gender Equity;
 Decentralization;
 Sustainable Development - Agenda 21and MDG´s
 Synergies among Conventions: Biodiversity, Desertification,
Climate Change, and Wetlands (Ramsar).

8. Water Policy Instruments
 Water Resources Plans
 Water Permits;
 Payment for water use (user-pays and
polluter-pays principles);
 Water quality classification;
 Enforcement and control;
 National Water Information System.

9. National Water Resources Plan (PNRH)
OBJECTIVE:
To establish a national pact integrating
multiple interests of use over water
resources, promoting the goals of economic
viability, social inclusion, environmental
sustainability, and risk control during
critical hydrological events.
 Planning as a process
 Construction of indicators
 Strategic – Participative – Decentralized
 A Vision through 2020

10. Water Resources National Plan (PNRH)
Macro-strategies for the implementation of the National
Water Policy andWater Resources Management System;
Guidelines, Goals and Programs to achieve the scenarios
agreed socially towards integrated water resources
management;
Millennium Development Goals: inter-relation with
Development and Poverty Eradication; Protection of our
common environment;

11. Brazil Hydrographic Regions
CNRH Resolution n°32, 15/Oct/2003.
Hydrographic Region Area (km2) Population Medium Flow (m3/s)
1 Amazônica 3.843.402 7.609.424 112.370
2 Tocantins-Araguaia 967.059 7.890.714 15.433
3 Atl. Nordeste Ocidental 254.100 4.742.431 2.514
4 Nordeste Oriental 287.348 21.606.881 813
5 Parnaíba 334.113 3.630.431 763
6 São Francisco 636.920 13.297.955 3.037
7 Atlântico Leste 374.677 13.641.045 1.400
8 Atlântico Sudeste 229.972 25.644.396 3.286
9 Paraná 879.860 54.639.523 10.371
10 Paraguai 363.447 1.887.401 1.833
11 Uruguai 174.412 3.824.652 4.117
12 Atlântico Sul 185.856 11.592.481 4.129

12. National
Hydrographic Division
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13. Water Resources National Plan (PNHR)
Development Process
Sensibilization, Mobilization and Institutional Arrangement
Technical Support for Discussions (National e
Regional)
Regional Discussions (consulting actors)
Scenario Consolidation
Adoption of Scenarios – National Water Resources
Council
Consolidation of Directives, Goals and
Programs
PNRH Approval - National Water Resources Council
SRH – PNRH Technical Group, DBR (2003-2005)

14. Water Resources National Plan (PNHR)
Planning Levels
Hydrographic regions State Level Federal Level
Regional Executive
Commission
(Quadripartite)
Discussion of terms of
reference for the Regional
Brochure.
Support for the production of
the Regional Brochure.
Support for the structuring of
the Regional Prospective
Seminars.
Support for the consolidation
of the Regional Vision
State Public
Meetings
National
Seminar
Presentation
and discussion
of results
Regional
Prospective
Seminars
National
Workshop
- GTCE
- CT-PNRH
Prospective
Scenarios
Consolidation
Support for the
structuring of the
State Public
Meetings –
presentation of first
results and
systematization of
suggestions for
proprietary
programs in regional
scale.
SRH – PNRH Technical Group, DBR (2003-2005)

15. GEF IW Projects in Brazil
 PLATA RIVER BASIN FRAMEWORK PROGRAM
 GUARANI AQUIFER
 SÃO FRANCISCO
 PANTANAL/UPPER PARAGUAY
 AMAZON
 DELTAMERICA

16. Common Strategy for Water Resources
Management in LAC Countries
(DELTAmerica Project)

17. Common Strategy - Objectives
 To converge national policies toward common goals related to
sustainable water use, taking into account human
consumption needs, production activities, and ecosystems
protection.
 To identify problems that make it difficult to implement
signed agreements for transboundary basin management and
to propose measures to overcome them;
 To develop articulated actions and cooperation among
countries toward water management;
 To strengthening national structures to attain Millennium
Development Goals.

18. Lessons Learned
 Strengthening and harmonization of actions in projects
implemented in the same region;
 Coordination of overlapping projects in an integrated way;
 Need to internalize project management in the countries;
 Improve institutional strengthening and stakeholder
training in water management as part of project
implementation;
 Active promotion of horizontal cooperation and
information exchange;
 Promotion participation and social accountability.

19. THANK YOU! Obrigado!
João Bosco Senra
Secretary of Water Resources
Ministry of Environment of Brazil
joao.senra@mma.gov.br
Tel: +55 (61) 4009-1291
www.mma.gov.br