The paper examines the possibility of a water market in Brazil. The US market, probably the oldest and most well … hand, the Brazil has a precarious infrastructure. To implement a water market, the first step would be to allow the trade …-documented one, is initially analyzed. In the American West, over the past 140 years the so-called "water rights" can be sold or …

use of the Sao Paulo State Water Resources Management Units (WRMUs) and the rest of Brazil by focusing on Alto Tiete WRMU …To illustrate the importance of the regional scale of water uses, this paper identifies the direct and indirect water …. The Alto Tiete WRMU has been suffering from water scarcity and its boundaries are similar to that of the Sao Paulo …

This paper aims at characterizing water demand by Brazilian manufacturing plants located in São Paulo and at assessing … the potential impacts of environmental policies on industrial water use. We first show that the price elasticity of the … water demand, -1.0 on average, is high enough for a water charge to act as an effective policy tool for reducing water …

Water is abundant in Brazil, but unevenly distributed across regions and users. Remarkable progress to reform the … stakeholders at different levels in Brazil. It assesses the performance of Brazil’s water governance and suggests policy … sector has been achieved since the 1997 National Water Law, but economic, climate and urbanisation trends generate threats …

The planning and management of water resources aiming to a sustainable development must necessary pass through a series … a set regions involved in the process, the direct and indirect regional interdependencies. Increasing demands of water … users. In the case of the São Francisco River Basin, Brazil, consisting of a wide-range five states - most of them having …

This paper aims at characterizing water demand by Brazilian manufacturing plants located in Sao Paulo and at assessing … the potential impacts of environmental policies on industrial water use. We first show that the price elasticity of the … water demand, -1.0 on average, is high enough for a water charge to act as an effective policy tool for reducing water …