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The Local Agenda 21 Planning Guide
A documentation program can be used to make the reporting required under an internal management system more consistent and
reliable. Since a great deal of information is gathered during the implementation of projects, a documentation program can ensure
that this information is available for future issue analysis, assessment, and planning exercises.
5.4 Conclusion
After the detailed issues of jurisdiction, interdepartmental coordination, linkages to statutory planning processes, monitoring, and
documentation, have been discussed and decided, detailed implementation strategies can be established for each target in the Action
Plan. Worksheet 7 provides a simple format for organizing and summarizing these implementation strategies.
5.5 CASES
5.5.1 CASE #13
THE MUNICIPALITY OF JUNDIAÌ, BRAZIL
INTER-JURISDICTIONAL COORDINATION
Program Name
Water Quality Control in the Jundiai River Basin
Background
The Jundiai River runs a 123 kilometer course through six municipal districts in the state of São Paulo, Brazil. These districts are
Campo Limpo Paulista, Varzea Paulista, Jundiai, Itupeva, Indaiatuba, and Salto. The population of the Jundiai River basin is
approximately 600,000 people, 90 percent of whom live in the urban area of Jundiaí and the remaining 10 percent in rural areas. The
economy of the rural areas is based on small farm production of fruit and coffee, but the close proximity of the river basin to the city
of São Paulo, Brazil, has resulted in the location of a wide range of industries along the river. These industries are responsible for the
majority of employment in the region, and have therefore rapidly increased urbanization along the river banks. The primary
environmental consequence for the region has been the increasing disposal of untreated industrial and domestic wastes into the river.
Pollution of the river has increased to such a level that large portions of its waters are unsuitable for either domestic or industrial use.
The Jundiai’s polluted waters flow into the Tietê River, the main water course of the state of São Paulo.
For years, the splitting of both the service and political jurisdictions for water supply, land-use control, industrial pollution
management, and drainage infrastructure prevented a comprehensive solution to the pollution of the basin. Each of the small
municipalities did not have sufficient resources on their own to invest in sewerage infrastructure, and had little incentive to do so if
the other municipalities in the basin continued to pollute the river.
Incremental approaches were not adequate. For example, in 1980 the municipality of Jundiaí (the largest of the municipalities with a
population of 400,000) passed a law to protect the catchment area of a tributary river, the Jundiaí-Mirim. This law established
permanent reserves within the Jundiaí-Mirim basin, regulated land uses, prevented the location of new industries in the basin, and
controlled the density of human settlement. In 1980, Jundiaí also constructed a system of drains in the basin to prevent the flow of
wastewater into the riverway. Nevertheless, in spite of these protection efforts, during eight months of the year the flows from the
Jundiaí-Mirim were not adequate to meet local water demands, and an aqueduct had to be constructed by the São Paulo state water
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