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Brazil has endured the worst droughts in recorded history over the last decade, resulting in severe socioeconomic and environmental impacts. The country is heavily reliant on water resources, with 77.7% of water consumed for agriculture (irrigation and livestock), 9.7% for the industry, and 11.4% for human supply. Hydropower plants generate about 64% of all electricity consumed. The aim of this study was to improve the current state of knowledge regarding hydrological drought patterns in Brazil, hydrometeorological factors, and their effects on the country’s hydroelectric power plants. The results show that since the drought occurred in 2014/2015 over the Southeast region of Brazil, several basins were sharply impacted and remain in a critical condition until now. Following that event, other regions have experienced droughts, with critical rainfall deficit and high temperatures, causing a pronounced impact on water availability in many of the studied basins. Most of the hydropower plants end the 2020–2021 rainy season by operating at a fraction of their total capacity, and thus the country’s hydropower generation was under critical regime.

This study evaluated the water sources at the points of water collection for human supply, identifying conventional and emerging pollutants that could compromise the public supply of the municipality of Cuiabá-MT. Raw water was analyzed at three water pumping sites, using secondary (2014 to 2019) and primary (June and November 2019) data. The parameters described in current regulations were used to calculate the Index of Conformity with the Guidelines, which assesses the distance between planned quality and measured quality. Drugs were discussed based on ecotoxicological studies. There was a reduction in the quality of water sources in the urbanized area, with the disposal of in natura domestic sewage and surface runoff as the most important causes of this reduction. Measures are needed to expand and ensure adequate and efficient collection and treatment of effluents, preventing pollutants from reaching rivers.