Amazon: Source of Life and Cooperation
The Amazon holds the largest reserve of freshwater on the planet. Ensuring its conservation is essential for life, climate stability, and global environmental balance.
ACTO regards water as a common and vital good, promoting regional water governance based on cooperation among the Amazonian countries. The focus is on guaranteeing the human right to safe drinking water and sanitation, while strengthening shared and sustainable management of aquatic ecosystems — surface, groundwater, and transboundary.
This axis reaffirms the commitment of the eight Member Countries to manage Amazonian water in an integrated, solidarity-based, and sustainable manner, balancing rational use, environmental protection, and the well-being of populations.
