Flaviopédia Português
Brazil that Grows

Water security

water that arrives, and floods that do not destroy

Proposes carrying out water works in the Northeast, such as the Apodi and Salgado branches, the Seridó Water Main and the Xingó Canal, and expanding infrastructure to prevent extreme climate events.

In the program: [p. 52] · Translated by Flaviopédia from the official Portuguese text; the Portuguese quote is authoritative. Read the original in Portuguese

What the program says

For millions of Brazilians, especially in the Northeast, water is still a daily uncertainty, and every rainy season many other families lose everything in floods and landslides. We have already shown that we know how to solve this. The Northern Axis of the Transposição do Rio São Francisco (the São Francisco river diversion project) was completed under the Bolsonaro government, and the waters of the Velho Chico (the São Francisco river) finally reached Ceará, Paraíba and Rio Grande do Norte, bringing water security to millions of northeasterners. We will bring back that same efficiency to move forward with the next works. We will complete, start, carry out structures such as the Apodi Branch, the Salgado Branch, the Seridó Water Main, the Xingó Canal, the Piancó Branch, the Sertão Canals of Bahia, Piauí and Alagoas, the CAC (the Ceará Water Belt) and the duplication of Ceará’s Eixão das Águas, without the abandonment of works that marked previous administrations. And we will expand infrastructure to prevent extreme climate events, with multiple-use dams, flood-control reservoirs, dikes, canals and drainage and macro-drainage works, as well as strengthening Civil Defense monitoring, warning and response. Water that reaches the tap and the crops safely, and cities protected from drought and flood. [p. 52]

In plain language

  • The text states that, especially in the Northeast, access to water is uncertain and that families lose everything in floods and landslides. It cites the completion of the Northern Axis of the São Francisco river diversion, which brought water to Ceará, Paraíba and Rio Grande do Norte.
  • It proposes completing, starting or carrying out water works such as the Apodi Branch, the Salgado Branch, the Seridó Water Main, the Xingó Canal, the Piancó Branch, the Sertão Canals of Bahia, Piauí and Alagoas, the CAC and the duplication of Ceará’s Eixão das Águas.
  • It provides for expanding the prevention of extreme climate events, with multiple-use dams, flood-control reservoirs, dikes, canals and drainage and macro-drainage works, as well as reinforcing Civil Defense monitoring, warning and response.

What is not in the program

  • It does not say which works would be completed, which would be started and which would continue under way.
  • It presents no cost, funding source or schedule for the works cited.
  • It does not say where or how many the flood-prevention and drainage works would be.
  • It does not detail what the strengthening of Civil Defense would consist of.