Águas da Paraíba: direito, política, e sociedade.

Abstract

The issue of water scarcity, in Brazil, is a reflection of not adoption of an integrated water management model, of growing demands for the precious natural good, its degradation and of an economic development standard which does not worry about the sustainability. Furthermore, in Paraíba, there are complicators of the rainfall irregularity and desertification which, added an intense industrial process, of not balanced urbanization and predatory agriculture, pose a serious risk to the quality of water bodies in the region, creating, this way, a situation of complication to the reasonable consume of this liquid by the population living in its territory. Thus, this work aims to explore the water management, having as a primordial north the science of law and water policy, since there are environmental and social needs of the population living in the semiarid part of the state, mainly, front of the scarcity of potable water, being important to take care of this valorous liquid, about its qualitative and quantitative aspects, to the present and future generations. The methodology applied to this research is based in the hermeneutic-systemic method, besides the development of the document review activity, which finds support on the paradigm conception. This way, observes that the management of water resources in the Paraíba’s State meets insufficiently to the requirements of state and federal water standards for effective implementation of the Integration Project of the San Francisco River Basin, from the studied State, also it does not allow the participation of many actors in the construction of a democratic manager process. Therefore, it is concluded that there is a need for state action that prezem by promoting water policies which make possible important and new constructions inside this sector, and which integrate civil society in the context of sustainable management of water resources, promoting, then, the maxim guaranty of this fundamental right, which is indispensable to the maintenance of various human activities.