A participação na integração do rio São Francisco: o caso do comitê de bacias do rio Paraíba.

Abstract

Fresh water is an indispensable resource for life, but it is a scarce resource, this causes many conflicts to be generated. As a way of solving the problems of drought, many public policies are formulated and implemented, seeking to guarantee the population access to quality water, the São Francisco River Integration Project - PISF has as main objective to increase water supply in the semi-arid. The objective of this work was to analyze the perception of the Hydrographic Basin Committee of the Paraíba River - CBH-PB in relation to the integration of the São Francisco River, as well as to study the contents of the minutes of meetings that discussed the São Francisco integration; Verify the acting of the participating members in the discussion process within the committee and identify the environmental concerns of the committee. To this end, 17 Minutes of the meetings were analyzed, from the first meeting held in 2007 to 2016, and an exploratory field study was carried out, with the direct observation of the committee's activities, through the participation of the first extraordinary meeting of the year Of 2017. Despite many advances, the environmental and PISF works are little discussed, there is no effective participation of the committee in the decision-making process regarding the transposition works.