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- Most of the information contained in this article was collected by participants in the Watermark Project (Projeto Marca d’Água), a multidisciplinary study of the development of decentralized water management institutions in 20 Brazilian river basins over five to ten years. For more information on the project, see: http://www.marcadagua.org.br.
- At 4,309 cubic miles per year, they far outstrip those of second-place Russia, with 2,789 cubic miles. See Peter H. Gleik, The World’s Water 2000-2001 (Washington, DC: Island Press, 2000), p. 197.
- The conference, a preparatory event for the June 1992 UNCED, included government-designated experts from over 100 countries and representatives of 80 international, intergovernmental and nongovernmental organizations. “The Dublin Statement on Water and Sustainable Development,” http://www.wmo.ch/web/homs/documents/english/icwedece.html.
- Janine Haase, “Bacia do Rio dos Sinos,” and Ricardo Gutierrez, “Bacia do Rio Gravataí,” http://www.marcadagua.org.br.
- Paula Duarte Lopes, “Bacia do Rio Piracicaba,” in Rosa Maria Formiga Johnsson and Paula Duarte Lopes, Projeto Marca d’Água: seguindo as mudanças na gestão das bacias hidrogrúficas do Brasil: caderno 1: retratos 3X4 das bacias pesquisadas (Brasília: FINATEC, 2003).
- The São Paulo water districts are not all river basins. The Tietê, for example, is divided into districts for management of the upper, middle and lower reaches of the river, each part of which has distinct characteristics.
- Interview, Ana Lucia Magyar, FUNDAP, Sêo Paulo, May 25, 1999. See also Margaret E. Keck, ‘“Water, Water Everywhere, Nor Any Drop to Drink:’ Land Use and Water Policy in Sao Paulo, Brazil,” in Peter Evans (ed.), Livable Cities? Urban Struggles for Livelihood and Sustainability (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001), pp. 162-194.
- Margaret Keck and Pedro Jacobi, “Bacia do Alto Tietê,” http://www.marcadagua.org.br.
- See Ivanir Mais, Bacia do Rio Itajaí,” http://www.marcadagua.org.br; Beate Frank and Noema Bohn, “A Bacia Hidrogrúfica do Rio Itajaí e o processo de criação do Comitê” de Bacia,” in Theis, Tomio and Mattedi (eds.), Novos Olhares sobre Blumenau(Blumenau: EdiFURB, 2000).
- Rosana Garjullil, et al., “Bacia do Rio Jaguaribe,” http://www.marcadagua.org.br. Studies of other examples can also be obtained at this same Web site and in Rosa Maria Formiga Johnsson and Paula Duarte Lopes, Projeto Marca d’Água: seguindo as mudanças na gestão das bacias hidrogrúficas do Brasil: caderno 1: retratos 3X4 das bacias pesquisadas.