ABSTRACT
ABSTRACT: The Brazilian Water Resources Policy establishes, among its management tools, the Classification of Water Bodies. This instrument aims to maintain the quality of the water body, in order to meet the preponderant water uses. To ensure a water quality that fits with such uses, strategic actions of remediation must be implemented at the river basin. These actions, in turn, are selected considering also economic, technical, social and environmental aspects. Appropriated actions must be identified, analysed and prioritized in accordance with the approval of the river basin committee. Some obstacles hamper the efficiency of this instrument, such as: lack of information about such an instrument, by the members of river basin committee, and lack of support for their participation in decision making. The present study aims to develop a methodological for the identification, analysis and prioritization of strategic management actions to the abatement of pollution load in the Brazilian rivers.
