Water Statistics in Brazil: Diretoria de Geociências Authors: Judicael ClevelarioJunior Valdir Neves Paula Terezina T. M. de Oliveira Valéria Grace Costa Pedro Amendola Roberval M. Rocha Júlio Jorge G. da Costa an Overview

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) Mapa 1

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 Introduction

Brazilian Institute of Geography and StatisticsIBGE ANA SRH Water National Agency Water Resources Secretary, linked to the Ministry of Environment - MMA federal entities, are trying, independently, to improve, compile and organize statistics related to water in Brazil IBGE IBGE Brazilian Agency of Non Secret Information

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. IBGE - Brazil

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Concluding Remarks compile, organize and synthesize the existent statistics try to fill the gaps and the lack of information underground waters and irrigation integrate the producers of the same kind of statistics, and try to standardize the methodologies used SRH, ANA and IBGE must discuss the role of each one in a water statistics system (an ideal scenario, the best one) improve the water statistics

Brazilian Scale and Different Realities How to synthesize and make the choices? Mapa 2 Questions? Thank you! Mapa 3

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