Author(s): Maycon Breno Macena Da Silva; Marcia Maria Rios Ribeiro
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Abstract: Good water governance is increasingly essential in a world under chronic stress in the social and ecological dimensions of water systems. Water governance operates within the social dimension and aims to direct water systems toward a desirable scenario by regulating management at different levels (Pahl-Wostl, 2015). Water governance includes legal aspects and formal and informal norms important for resource management and decision-making arenas. The governance system comprises actors, institutions and their interactions responsible for developing water governance (Pahl-Wostl, 2015). Monitoring water governance is essential to increase knowledge and learning, to solve gaps and to improve the relationship within the governance system (Costa and Neto, 2023). In Brazil, Federal Law 9,433 of 1997 established the National Water Resource Policy (PNRH), defining guidelines for participatory and decentralized water governance. Additionally, Law 9,433 created the National Water Resource Management System (SINGREH), which encompasses institutions responsible for implementing the PNRH at different planning levels (Ribeiro, 2017). The Brazilian water governance primarily considers three levels of planning: national, state (Brazil is a federation composed of 26 states and the federal district), and river basins. However, reservoirs play an essential role in the country, serving as vital source of water supply for a significant portion of the population and contributing to over half of the nation's electricity generation. Thus, although the reservoirs are already considered in the planning carried out at the three aforementioned levels, the planning that has been carried out at the reservoir level through negotiated water allocation processes and regulatory frameworks is also highlighted (Marques, 2022).
Year: 2024