Arcabouço hídrico-jurídico do direito de águas da Paraíba.

Abstract

The essentiality of water for life is immeasurable. All the creatures that inhabit the planet Earth depend on it. However, despite the amount of living creatures have increased, the water remains almost the same since the beginning. For being a finite resource, it has gaining more and more significance. In Brazil, owner of most reserves of drinking water in the world, water resources are regulated by Law No. 9.433/97 which establishes the National Water Resources Policy. This work analyzed that norm, with all its elements, as well as the law No. 6.308/96 which establishes the State Policy of Water Resources of the State of Paraíba. Were also examined the state decrees and resolutions related to the topic covered by the water policy of the state. Still, it was highlighted the Law No. 7.779/05 that establishes an Executive Management Agency of water of the state of Paraíba. The methods used were the hermeneutic-legal and the monographic and the bibliographic as a research technique. In this light it can be verified the significance of the legislation of Paraiba since it has become an important way for instruments such as billing, grants and water resources fund came to be regulated