Institutional
   Water Management

______WHO ARE WE?
 The Brazilian National Water Agency, ANA, was created in July 2000 with the mandate to enforce the National Policy on Water Resources, NPWR, passed by Parliament in 1997. This new institutional arrangement was a response to the increasing demands over scarce water resources by conflicting uses, such as agriculture, industry, urban and recreational uses. Amongst ANA's attributions is the planning and management of the national water resources, while being subject to the principles, guidelines and instruments defined by the National Policy on Water Resources.
  ANA is an executive branch from the Ministry of Environment. It is managed by a Board of Directors and it has administrative and financial autonomy to regulate the multiple water uses. This autonomy aims at ensuring the highest possible efficiency in public and private water provision. more

______HIGHLIGHTS
 The evolution of Water Resources Management in Brazil
The diversity of climates, topography, socioeconomic and cultural conditions, makes water management a complex task in Brazil.
 Overview of Hydrographic Regions in Brazil
From limitless abundance in the Amazon to scarcity and want that feeds the poverty of the semi-arid regions, the landscapes are as varied and countless as the infinite combinations of Nature´s bounty and demands of Man
 The Evolution of the Organization and Implementation of Water Basin Management in Brazil
 PRODES - Catchment Restoration Programme - Brazil 2001/2011
 Main Projects

PROÁGUA is a sub-program that aims at increasing good quality water supply in the semi-arid region in Brazil. It promotes the rational use of water resources so that its relative scarcity would not continue to represent an obstacle to the region's development. 

The water warning system for the Doce river and the Sapucaí river is a partnership between ANA and IGAM, the water management body of Mians Gerais State. It aims at providing an early warning on flood risks so as to minimize its loses and socio-economic impacts in the affected regions. 

The River Basin Pollution Abatement Program - PRODES - was created in march 2001 aiming at providing incentives to the implementation of Sewerage Treatment Plants which, in turn, would both prevent river basin pollution as well as reduce the existing water pollution levels in the river basins in Brazil.

The São Francisco River Basin Committee aims at promoting a decentralized and participative water management system in the São Francisco basin by resolving water conflicts and promoting multiple water uses.

The P1MC - "1 Million Cisterns Program" aims at ensuring water provision to one million poor rural families, who are usually scattered over the semi-arid region's territory, thus contributing to improve their condition, strengthening the human and social capital already present in these very poor areas.

This project aims at putting in place a practical integrated management system in the Alto Paraguay and river basin. It is being implemented with the participation of ANA, UNEP, OAS, the states of Mato Grosso and Mato Grosso do Sul with the participation of several civil society organizations.

The National Water Resources Plan - PNRH - is a water management instrument which provides the guidelines for the implementation of the National Water Policy. In june 2003, the National Water Resources Council approved, the definition of the 12 main brazilian hydrographic regions.

The São Francisco GEF Project aims at contributing to the environmental sustainability of the River Basin and Coastal Zone development. It provides the technical and financial support that is required for the implementation of the integrated management system's strategic actions.

The Piracicaba, Capivari and Jundiaí River Basin Committee is composed by representatives of the central and state level governments (Minas Gerais and São Paulo states), municipal governments (75 municipalities whose territories are partially or totally within the basin area), private sector and legitimate representatives of civil society organizations dealing with water issues.

ANA operates de national hydrometeorological web and collects relevant information thas is made available to all stakeholders of the National Water Management System. Here you will find the maps from the National Hydro Meteorological Network with their respective descriptive tables by state.

The Paraiba do Sul Project aims at establishing sound basis for water charges in the Paraiba do Sul river basin through the enrollment of the basin's water users from all segments.

HIBAM is an international scientific project that involves Brazil, Equator, Bolivia and France in a joint venture aiming at studying the Amazon Basin's hydrological and geochemical aspects.

The Hydro-Web is the hydrological information system from. It provides access to information originated by the Telemetric Stations as well as to data that is being generated through daily satellite monitoring of the water bodies in Brazil.

The Aquifer Guarani Project aims at the preparation of a technical, institutional and legal model intended at providing a sound and coordinated management of the aquifer's water resources between the participating countries: Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay. 

The RISF is an Information Network on the São Francisco River Basin. It is an ANA's institutional building initiative sponsored by the GEF, UNEP and the OAE. It aims at the creation of a knowledge-base by putting together different organizations that currently generate knowledge on the São Francisco basin, that would be willing to share both their responsibilities and the costs involved in the knowledge creation process, so as to make their common knowledge available to society as a whole.


ANA - Agência Nacional de Águas
SPO - Setor Policial Área 5 Quadra 3 Blocos B e L - Brasília - DF - Brazil ZIP : 70610-200
Phone: 61 2109-5400