Decision-making Policies for the Salgado River Basin, Ceará – Brazil

The parliament water of “Salgado” river, an event that guided the actions and recommendations for the future of the waters of the “Salgado” River, south of the Brazilian state of Ceará, was obtained through a democratic process, with 100 public, private and the third sector institutions. We have intended to define a model of development compatible with the aspirations of society as regards to the priority use and the water quality standard we want to achieve, and what the necessary actions and strategies for multi-criteria analysis of the instrument national water policy, the Framework water. The main goal of the analysis is to decide what is the appropriate policy to meet the purposes of the Parliament of the Waters of the “Salgado” River. So we have used the Analytic Hierarchy Process method (AHP): the criteria was analyzed economic, socio-economic, social, environmental and environmental; alternatives were defined essentially preservationist policies, sustainable policies and essentially economic policies. Preliminary results indicate that the application of AHP method was effective in decision made.