This Law, consisting of 29 articles divided into four Chapters and one Annex, establishes the State Water Resources Plan (PERH). It lays down guidelines for management of water resources, recovery and protection of water resources quality, promotion and encouragement of the rational use of water, indicating a set of goals to be achieved through the implementation of continuing programmes, which should include forecasting and indicators to follow up the effectiveness of its implementation. The State Water Resources Council (CRH) must approve the compatibility of the PERH investment programme with the State Multi-year Plan (PPA) within 180 days from its publication. The Annex specifies Territorial Division in 22 Water Management Units (UGRHIs). The general objectives and guidelines of PERH aim to promote the following: prevention and mitigation of situations of scarcity and of the quality of the water (by means of: a) promotion of multiple use projects; b) inducing demographic and industrial decentralization, by urban and rural land use planning; c) support for the rational use of water resources in water supply services; d) incentive to reuse as a measure to promote the efficient use and conservation of water; e) technical support and promotion of rational irrigation practices through hydro-agricultural zoning and efficient water use; f) subsidy to the planning of the location of the economic activities that use water resources, as well as the protection of the sources of water supply of the populations); integration of goals and actions for the recovery, protection and conservation of water resources with other related sectoral policies, plans and programmes at the regional, state or national level; actions of prevention, mitigation or adaptation in areas of greater vulnerability to climate change, as regards the reduction of water quality and availability or extreme hydrological events; search for new funding sources for programme implementation, in addition to those provided in the PPA and budget laws.
Brazil · 2016-12-14