Author(s)

Denise Taffarello^1*, João Guimarães², Regiane Kock de Sousa Lombardi³, Maria do Carmo Calijuri¹, Eduardo Mario Mendiondo^1,4

¹Hydraulics & Sanitary Department, Escola de Engenharia de Sao Carlos, University of Sao Paulo, Sao Carlos, Sao Paulo, Brazil.
²Fauna and Flora International, Biodiversity Partnership, Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil.
³Lombardi Topografia e Agrimensura, Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil.
⁴Brazilian Center of Monitoring and Early Warning of Natural Disasters (CEMADEN), Sao Jose dos Campos, Sao Paulo, Brazil.

Both Ecosystem-based Adaptation (EbA) and Payment for Ecosystem Services (PES) have a wide range of strategies that include different economic instruments for nature conservation. Although the generation and maintenance of payment for hydrologic ecosystem services (Water-PES) is expanding in Brazil, there are difficulties in the implementation of projects. Due to the complexity and non-linearity of the hydrological processes, also affecting both EbA and Water-PES goals, monitoring quali-quantitative aspects of streams have been here addressed as a useful management tool. This study presents the Hydrological Monitoring Plan (HMP) of the Water Producer/PCJ project, operating between 2009-2014, in order to: 1) evaluate the impact of project actions under water quali-quantitative aspects; and 2) promote the incorporation of HMP’s elements in water resources management. HMP of the Water Producer/PCJ project has been implemented following the conditions for efficiency (baseline, long-term scale compatible with the actions of the project, in the experimental and reference watersheds). In addition, HMP is being implemented from upstream to downstream in catchments with areas ranging from 17 to 130 km². This proposal favors the quantification and valuation of hydrologic services that could be assessed by ecohydrologic monitoring and modeling. Thus, we look forward to the consolidation of the Brazilian information system of water resources, the reduction of modeling uncertainties and integrated assessment of the consequences of land-use/land-cover change that strongly impact goals of EbA and Water-PES initiatives.

Ecohydrological Monitoring, Brazilian Water Producer/PCJ Project, Hydrologic Services, Quali-Quantitative Aspects of Water Resources

Taffarello, D. , Guimarães, J. , de Sousa Lombardi, R. , do Carmo Calijuri, M. and Mendiondo, E. (2016) Hydrologic Monitoring Plan of the Brazilian Water Producer/PCJ Project. Journal of Environmental Protection, 7, 1956-1970. doi: 10.4236/jep.2016.712152.