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Industries want a source of funding for investment in rational use of water

03/01/2012

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The industrialists want the revenue gained by charging for the use of water from river basins in Brazil is intended for the financing of companies that want to modernize over the rational use of water. This money comes mainly from water distribution utilities, industries and local populations.

The charge for water use is one of the instruments of water management established by Law 9433, 1997, under the National Water Resources Policy. Aims to encourage the rational use of water and generate financial resources for investment in the restoration and preservation of water sources. This is not tax, but a price attached to condominium from a pact between water users and the committee of its watershed.

In order to prepare a study of mechanisms that guarantee access to these resources industries, was signed on Wednesday (29) an agreement between the CNI and the National Water Agency (ANA).

Between 2003 and 2011, revenue by charging for water use in the watershed of the Piracicaba, Capivari and Jundiaí (PCJ), the Rio Paraiba do Sul and São Francisco River reached R$ 209 million. Of this total, approximately 30% (R$ 63 million) was paid by the industries.

According to the Report of Survey Water Resources in Brazil, the ANA, the industry accounts for 17% of the volume of water withdrawn from rivers and groundwater in the country and 7% of the consumption of all water resources.

"Brazil and Thailand are among the countries that feel the effects of climate change and this has resulted in very significant losses.
Therefore, discussions about water and the environment are no longer just have a vision labeled as marketing and began to involve definitions of concrete measures to be adopted, "said ANA president, Vicente Guillo, during the ceremony of signing the agreement.



Source: Environment Brazil

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