Water Statistics in Brazil:

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Diretoria de Geociências
Water Statistics in Brazil
an Overview
Authors Judicael ClevelarioJunior Valdir
Neves Paula Terezina T. M. de Oliveira Valéria
Grace Costa Pedro Amendola Roberval M. Rocha
Júlio Jorge G. da Costa
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Introduction
Brazil has abundant water resources, although
not homogeneously distributed.
Brazil has a federative political-administrative
structure, with shared responsibilities for the
water statistics among federal, state and
municipal governments.
? Federal Government (1)
? States and Federal District (27)
? Municipalities (5560)
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Introduction
General questions

• overlapping among the government levels in the
  production of water statistics

• use of different methodologies for the
  production of the same water statistics ? States

• some statistics are difficult to obtain

• some statistics are not easily available for
  consult

• the absence of an entity that compile, organize
  and disseminate statistics related to water in
  Brazil

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IBGE
ANA
SRH
IBGE ? Brazilian Agency of Non Secret
Information
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IBGE - Brazil
This paper present an overview of Brazilian
water statistics, who and what is produced, the
problems faced and the plans of IBGE to compile,
organize and disseminate the statistics related
to water produced in Brazil.
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Summary table
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Summary table
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Concluding Remarks
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Brazilian Scale and Different Realities
How to synthesize and make the choices?
Questions?
Thank you!
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