Payment for Watershed Services Brazil 1997

[摘要] "In 1997, Brazil passed the Lei da Política Nacional de Recursos, a law that essentially recognizes water as a public "good", whose use must be duly compensated through a financial payment. Furthermore it stipulates that resources generated through this means should be used to protect the resource at its origin. This opens up the possibility for water payments to be directed towards conservation projects, but does not mean that all resources from water usage is directed towards conservation. Part of the payments can go towards maintaining the infrastructure that delivers the water, and the water that we pay for through our utility bill has nothing to do with the charges that are established under this law. Water payments that relate to the use of resources from a particular watershed are collected by the local water management agency, which charges a usage fee and redistributes a portion of the payment to local watershed management committees. "

[发布日期] 1997-01-01

[学科分类] 全球变化