Avaliação da alocação de recursos provenientes da cobrança pela água bruta no Estado da Paraíba.

Abstract

Humanity's need for water has been growing rapidly and incompatible with nature's recovery capacity, causing damage to the quality and quantity of available water resources. Charging for the use of water is one of the instruments of Law No. 9.433, which aims to rationalize the use of this asset. The resources from this instrument must be applied to the respective basins in which they were generated. This line of research aligns with the Sustainable Development Goals, within the theme of clean water and sanitation. The present work aimed to investigate the application of resources from charging for raw water in the state of Paraíba and analyze its implementation. The analysis of the effectiveness of charging in the basins was carried out by comparing the actions foreseen in the annual application plans of the State Water Resources Fund (FERH) and the criteria scales (qualitative and qualitative-quantitative) to assess the degree of implementation of established charging.