O domínio das águas e o papel dos municípios na solução dos conflitos: o uso da água pelos irrigantes de Pombal - PB.

Abstract

Water resources are indispensable life of beings and of the whole planet, and its scarcity implies a new attitude of society. This issue is present in some parts of the world and the country. In order to guarantee the right of use of water resources, protection, preservation and access to drinking water, legislation brought standards and protection devices to this exhaustible natural resource, to guide and determine the obligations and its penalties for effect the art. 225 of the 1988 Constitution also recognizes the increasing lack of water for irrigation and other uses, given its irregular availability scheduled throughout the year and the region. Based on federal law and the state of Paraíba, the need arises to analyze the management of water resources and its application to municipalities, and thus place the constitutional competence in the field of water resources, and the study of grant of water in order to set the legislative strategies to be adopted by the municipality about the management of water resources in the solution of conflicts by water. The research used the inductive method, from the case study as the role of the Municipality of Pombal - PB with respect to conflict the right to use water resources for irrigation. As is also guided by the qualitative approach while farmers researcher, and quantitative as the collection of data provided by the National Water Agency, Ministry of Land, EFSA - PB, Piranhas-Açu Basin Committee, scientific research and legislation. It follows the need to develop permanent mechanisms for social participation in negotiating the framework of basin committees in order to ease the conflict and ensure shared management of the common good. Hence the role of the Municipality in the political and administrative organization in the implementation of public policies on behalf of its managed, by being closer to the local reality. There was also failure in the management of the waters of the Piranha-Açu Basin. Thus, one should increase the share of irrigation in the basin committees to identify the social dimension of conflicts over water. Create a municipal law to delegate powers the Agriculture Department in the creation of informative record of irrigators, including technical guidance regarding the right of concession procedure of water resources to extinction, and increase the participation of ANA on the local reality through public hearings.