A taxação da água bruta no Rio Grande do Norte e seu impacto nas indústrias de cerâmica vermelha.

Abstract

The scarcity of water resources can generate important conflicts of interest due to its wide range of applications. Managing water resources in a river basin is the safest approach to ensuring these diverse uses, through the adoption of tools such as charging for water use. In Brazil, the implementation of charging has been notably slow, despite legal support in Law No. 9,433/97 and State Water Resources Policies. Charging for the use of raw water in Rio Grande do Norte has only been discussed from 2022 onwards and to date is still in the discussion phase. Emerging from this scenario, the study in question aims to analyze how the segment of the red ceramic industry, which is a major consumer of this natural resource, would be impacted. With this, a brief summary was made of the emergence of this industry and its economic importance for the country, it was also exemplified how tiles, bricks and flagstones are produced, which is the final object produced by red ceramics. In this way, a study was carried out on national environmental policy, with the purpose of evaluating how this segment behaves from the perspective of the current order, which protects the environment. In view of this, the policies that ceramics adopt to become more sustainable can be demonstrated. The national water resources policy was also explained, as from it the possibility of taxing raw water throughout the country was achieved, and based on this standard, RN is creating its bill for taxation to occur in the State's territory. The methodology used in the research was deductive plus bibliographic and documentary research techniques, with methods of historical comparative and monographic procedures, of an explanatory nature. The general objective was to understand how the red ceramic industry uses water and relates to the environment, and the impact that taxation in RN will have on this industry.