Análise da gestão da demanda de águas superficiais no município de Sousa-PB: o caso daesa (2006-2012).

Abstract

Essential resource for human life and sustainable environmental balance, water is considered by Brazilian law a well in the public domain and a limited natural resource, with economic value. Evident that the management of surface water in the municipality of Sousa, in the State of Paraiba, Brazil, gathers a federal agency, a society of mixed economy state and a local authority, beyond the interests of domestic consumers who make free use of the water and the interests of the associations of irrigators and other users, this research questioned and took the role as general objective of the Department of Water, Sewerage and Environmental Sanitation Sousa (DAESA) in demand management of surface water in the municipality of Sousa, in the period 2006-2012. The specific scopes sought: identify potential conflicts generated by the demand of the multiple use of surface water and public policies related to the management of this demand, among Union, State of Paraíba, municipality of Sousa and user associations; describe the instruments used in the administration of the binomial demand-availability of water resources and their impacts on the environment; and relate the structural and non-structural measures, in technological, institutional, economic and educational spheres, adopted as an incentive to reduce consumption. The method of procedure adopted for the achievement of the research was the case study with inductive, exploratory and holistic design. Utilizing collecting multiple sources of evidence, they were subjected to analysis by hermeneutics and the triangulation of data. In discussions are enrolled serious problems in the management model adopted by DAESA.