Brazilian’s Legal Framework and Water Regulation

Marcelo Kokke(Department of Law, Dom Holder Camara College, Belo Horizonte, 30150-250, Brazil)

Abstract

The legal framework of water regulation can assume different characteristics according to each country’s reality. The preservation and conservation of water and ecosystems depend on rules configuration in the Constitution and legal prescriptions. This manuscript presents the Brazilian legal framework and water regulation. The analysis confirms that in the Brazilian system water is regulated as environmental resource and environmental good. From a descriptive methodology, the article explains how the Brazilian legal system works. The article also remarks on the regulation of multiple uses of water, approaching the legal regulation among industrial, agricultural, and human consumption of water. The aim of the paper is to explain normative regulation of water in Brazil, including the court’s activities in cases of discharges of sewage directly into the rivers.

Keywords

Water regulation; Brazil; Environmental resource; Environmental good

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.26549/mmpp.v5i4.15883