As águas de Assunção: entre a demasia e o déficit.

Abstract

The present study aims at presenting, to map and argue about two environmental political problems in the city of Assunção-PB that, during the short rainy period, has been struggling with floods in two specific points of the city, and throughout the rest of year, the municipality faces serious problems related to the water supply. Based on these two extremes, we search here discuss how the lack of public policies and governmental actions originate these problems, and how the population has undergone for lack of water resources management, being used as product in industry of drought. In the process of elaborate this study, we seek to perform the mapping of areas of flooding in the urban area, bibliographic reviews, and a few field visits. And by conducting of these procedures can be stated that the lack of public policy has been, through the years, a leading producer of these problems in the city of Assunção-PB.