R$3.5 billion have been invested in the construction of canals and dams

There is no development without access to water and the Brazilian government is investing heavily to irrigate historically dry regions, such as the Brazilian northeast.The Brazilian government has already invested R$3.5 billion in the construction of canals and dams.

By 2022, the current government will have delivered Section IV of the Canal do Sertão Alagoano; the Water Belt of Ceará; the Coastal Canal Paraibana; the Agreste Pernambuco Water Supply and Canal; the Oiticica Dam; and the East and North axes of the São Francisco River Canal.

In addition to bringing fresh water to thousands of Brazilians, these investments have already generated around 168,000 jobs!

Today, Brazil is still working to enable the construction of more irrigation works, such as; Extension of Salgado; Seridó Water Supply; Canal of the Sertão of Bahia; and, Xingó Canal.

The effort to bring water to the northeast region is not limited to canal projects, the Fresh Water Project, also of the federal government, is building 598 desalination systems to use brackish and saline groundwater from deep wells in the semiarid region, 278 are already working.

The São Francisco and Parnaíba Valleys Development Company (Codevasf) and the National Department of Works Against Droughts (Dnocs), institutions linked to the Ministry of Regional Development, were also responsible for installing 1,400 wells in the Northeast.