They are objectives of the Guandu-RJ Committee:

• Adopt the hydrographic basins in its area of ​​operation as physical-territorial units for specific planning and management;
• Promote decentralized management without decoupling the quantitative and qualitative aspects of water resources;
• Support and promote prevention and defense actions against hydrological events that pose risks to public health and safety;
• Recognize water as a public domain good, limited and of economic, social and environmental valuel;
• Identify the causes and adverse effects of pollution, deforestation, floods, droughts, soil erosion and siltation of water bodies, in its area of ​​operation;
• Make the management of water resources compatible with regional development and environmental protection, adapting it to the physical, biotic, demographic, economic, social, historical and cultural diversities of its area of ​​operation;
• Promote the maximization of environmental, economic and social benefits resulting from the integrated multiple use of water resources, ensuring the priority use provided for in current legislation;
• Encourage water protection with actions that may compromise current, projected and future multiple uses;
• Promote the integration of water resources management with environmental management;
• Promote environmental education, exchange of regional and technical knowledge, folkloric manifestations, tradition and popular festivals, respect, protection and historical and archeological preservation, aiming at the rescue of identity and the construction of individual and collective citizenship;
• Manage and promote updates to your Basin Plan;
• Promote the integration of activities of public and private agents, related to water and environmental resources, matching the goals and guidelines of the Basin Plan.
  

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