A transposição do Rio São Francisco e seus impactos para a cidade de Monteiro - PB.

Abstract

This work aims to understand the potential of the São Francisco River about the contributions and difficulties that it presents in the scenario in which it was installed in the city of Monteiro in the state of Paraíba. We understand that the resources available in the São Francisco River can serve several communities and why not say a large number of cities that can use the water to carry out irrigation projects. These benefits are also important for economic growth, as well as the improvement of basic everyday needs. Thinking about these issues, we seek through bibliographical studies to carry out a survey of information about the transposition project of the São Francisco river, in order to know a little more about it, as well as to bring to light, divergent points that end up delaying the process. progress of works. All this opposition regarding access is associated not only with natural climatic characteristics, but, above all, with geopolitical decisions permeated by the maintenance of the water market and landholding hegemony. This time, the expansion of the production of capitalist space and the process of territorial occupation on the banks of the São Francisco River, mainly in the last two centuries, occurred through the deconfiguration of both the riverside way of life and the landscape