Gestão das águas no Semiárido Paraibano pós-transposição: à luz do compliance.

Abstract

When reflecting on the scarcity scenario in Northeastern Semiarid, it is coherent to talk about the actions in coping with the efficient applicability of management, for the pos-sible promotion of an equitable development. In this sense, ODS 6 proposes as a goal (6.b) to support and strengthen the participation of local communities, with the purpose of improving management. Before a resolutive perspective in relation to water scarcity and the socio-environmental conditions of the population, the São Francisco River In-tegration Project (PISF) would provide an expectation of water abundance to the sem-iarid region of the State of Paraíba. Among the goals of this research: verify the Paraí-ba River water management in the semi-arid of Paraíba after PISF, identify the actors in the water management process in the Paraíba River Hydrographic Basin (BHRPB); characterize the role of the Institutions that manage water resources in the region; map the influence of management agencies in the use and maintenance of water in BHRPB and; present guidelines for the elaboration of a work and action plan for the improvement of those involved. For this, a total of 17 meeting minutes were analyzed, being 4 minutes of ordinary meetings of the Water Resources State Council (CERH) and 13 from the Paraíba River Hydrographic Basin Committee (CBH-PB), among ordi-nary and extraordinary meetings, equivalent to the period from 2016 (prior to the re-ception of the waters) to 2019. With a focus on aspects related to TRSF, it was per-formed the: (i) elaboration of the criteria framework for management evaluation; (ii) analysis of results, based on the classification of the criteria, as well as the composi-tion of CBH-PB and CERH and the participation of the respective actors responsible for managing the waters and; (iii) with the results of the documentary analysis, guide-lines were proposed for improving governance in the study area. This way, it is noticed that there is a limitation of CBH-PB's actions, due to the lack of AESA professionals in view of the demand generated by the transposition, being the joint actions of these two bodies extremely important for water management. In view of the results obtained by the documentary analysis, we identified the flaws that still prevent the existence of good governance in this area of study.