Níveis de implementação da Política Nacional de Recursos Hídricos: um comparativo entre a bacia do rio São Francisco e a bacia do rio Salitre-BA.

Abstract

This research highlights the need to evaluate the degree of implementation of the PNRH (the National Water Resources Policy) in a basin that presents a river under federal domain. At the same time, a comparison with a state river basin is performed in order to analyse a strategy for an integrated planning process, which could contribute to the PNRH implementation. It is proposed a methodology that consists of defining criteria and integration levels for watershed analysis. The criteria selected were the instruments of the National Water Resources Policy, the public participation bodies (the basin committees) and the incidence of conflicts over water use. Considering the river basin at macro (São Francisco river basin) and micro planning levels (Salitre river basin), the criteria were defined according to current legislation and based on bibliographical research. Based on these, the following integration levels were defined: very high, high, medium, low and very low. The proposed methodology is applied to the Salitre river basin, located in the state of Bahia and the São Francisco river basin. The analysis shows that different results can be achieved depending on the level of planning considered and depending on which criterion is being analysed. These results allow the suggestion of water resources management actions, in order to support decision making by the entities responsible for such management.