SOUSA, L. F.; http://lattes.cnpq.br/9549790111139610; SOUSA, Lucivânia Figueiredo de.
Résumé:
Northeast of Brazil is a region marked by strong socio-environmental degradation
and the recurring droughts. The water lack problem is ravaging a high population quota.
Even democracy treating water as a common good, right of all, this feature essential to
life, it is still quite scarce in different localities. This was the case of Alagoa Grande
City, in Paraiba state, Brazil what suffer with the precarious supply of drinking water
from the years of 1960 intensified in the 1990's with period without rain and increasing
population. The population alagoagrandense demanded the construction of a dam to
ensure water, mainly for human consumption. There, the dam began to be built in 2000,
inaugurated in 2002, but after two years was broke. The disaster occurred on June 17,
2004, Alagoa Grande was in a state of calamity, your entire population, and some 27
thousand inhabitants were hit directly or indirectly. We study Alagoa Grande as a locus
for the development of research in the field, to understand how it is the participation in
the process of government decision, more specifically, the process of interaction
between a body of civil society (Commission of defense Rights of Victims of Camara)
and governments established between the years of 2000 and 2007 regarding Camara.
And also check the accountability (transparency, accountability, responsiveness of the
government) of governments established in this same period is important to stress that
the committee to which we refer was formed due to the disruption of Camara, with main
objective to achieve compensation of property taken by the tragedy. We can say that the
committee had an important role, has much of its claims with the government, but the
civic spirit alagoagrandense is still quite fragile. We call for the participation of these
plots as "immediately" affected by the disaster. In general, failed to alagoagrandenses
understanding of the breaking of the dam as a process and not as a product, it could
have reduced risks and vulnerabilities and consequently reduce the threats to the
population.