This document discusses water infrastructure in Brazil, including: 1) It outlines Brazil's efforts to upgrade water infrastructure through projects like the São Francisco Water Transfer Project, the largest water transfer project in Latin America, and through the National Water Security Plan. 2) It highlights the importance of considering not just infrastructure construction but ongoing funding, maintenance, and operation to ensure financial sustainability. 3) It notes the need for an effective governance model that involves different levels of government, private users, and civil society in decision making.

1. U p g r a d i n g , G o v e r n i n g a n d
F i n a n c i n g W a t e r
I n f r a s t r u c t u r e i n B r a z i l
National Water Agency -
Brazil
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2. ANA and OECD start
cooperating
2013
ANA joins WGI
2013
Water Resources
Governance in Brazil
1st Multi-Stakeholder
Dialogue
2015
Water Charges in Brazil
2nd Multi-Stakeholder
Dialogue
2017
The Governance of Water and
Sanitation Infrastructure in Brazil
2017
Timeline

3. • 4 days of presentations and debates
• more than 50 stakeholders from Federal and State bodies
• 3 international experts from OECD
• group and plenary discussions
• strongly participative process
• actions separated into 7 main issues:
- Governance and institutional arrangements
- Policy
- Planning
- Funding and charging
- Capacity and capability
- Resilience thinking
- Operating infrastructure.
1st Workshop 2019
Brasília - Brazil
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4. • Largest infrastructure construction for water transfer ever done in
Latin America.
• Project will benefit around 12 million people in the Northeast
region of Brazil,
• It comprises 470 km of channels, tunnels and pumping stations.
• New kind of governance between different levels of government,
private users and civil society. .
São Francisco Water Transfer
Project
The National Water Security Plan (PNSH)
• Launched in 2019
• Planning instrument with set investments in infrastructures,
according to their relevance on water security issues.
• Timeframe considered was 2019-2035.
• Total of 7,5 billion euros in projects, constructions and studies and
275 million euros in Operation and Maintenance.
PNSH
1) how important it is to think not only about infrastructure but also about funding these constructions,
2) how to maintain and operate them,
3) how to make them financially sustainable, and
4) how to come up with a governance model that works it out.
Issues
2 Examples in
Brazil

5. Economic instruments as a response to pressing issues such
as water pollution and freshwater contamination.
Discussion on expected results of water security related projects (as
Sao Francisco water transfer) that could reduce vulnerabilities
concerning water availability for the Northeast region.
November 2020
Water allocations, governance and economic instruments for the
Piancó-Piranhas Açu river basin. This basin is in the semi-arid
Northeast region of Brazil and reaches around 1,5 million inhabitants
where irrigated agriculture and livestock are the main economic
activities
May 2020
Water supply and sanitation regulation at federal level
ANA is about to be formally appointed as a federal regulator for this
sector. Discussion of ways for ANA to achieve this goal efficiently
and effectively.
September 2020
3 More Workshops in 2020

6. O s c a r C o r d e i r o N e t t o
o s c a r @ a n a . g o v . b r
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