Direito de águas da Paraíba: uma análise da bacia hidrográfica do rio Mamanguape.

Abstract

From the time the water came to be understood as a limited resource there was a twist in the vision of society in general, reflecting in the protectionist bias regulations targeting the sustainable development. In Brazil, for a long period was an economic model geared to the development at any cost and a coordinating environmental policy and sparse. The Federal Constitution of 1988 was a milestone in the protection of natural resources because it ensures the protection of our resources to ensure all the rights of an ecologically balanced environment, moreover, claimed for the Union and the Member States the water extinguishing the possibility of private property on them. With Fulcrum on the constitutional principles, the federal law n° 9.433/97 established in the Brazilian legal system the national water resources Policy modifying the until then centralised and fragmented to integrated management and decentralized. Scientific research addresses the Watershed Estadual do Rio Mamanguape with the scope to examine the policy and the management of water in its dimensions: legal and institutional, environmental and social issue of federal law n° 9.433/97, making use the interpretation of legal texts and institutional relations of the water state of Paraíba. The method used is called Deductive, since part of the interpretation of the existing legal framework in search of the characteristics of the study area. During the treatment of the deliberative committee minutes of the coast-north, which includes the basin under study remained evidenced that the little integration between the spheres of power and public administration towards civil society undermines the progress of projects drawn up by the managers. It is concluded, it is necessary to understanding of relevant legislation, as well as the relationship of this with normative documents, the elaborate institutional structure, the governmental and intergovernmental plans that have been developed and perception of population of Paraiba about your role in the management of water, the result of the legal and institutional innovations.