Cassuto, David N.; Sampaio, Romulo S. R. - 2015
This article examines two of the major water legal regimes in the Americas - that of Brazil and the United States. Both … countries have extensive wet and dry regions and both hydro-regimes face a significant threat from global warming. Brazil, for … has exerted a powerful influence on the nation’s common law. Similarly, in Brazil, the notion of water as infinitely …