Legislação uso de água residuária: análises e propostas normativas.

Abstract

The research aims to bring the discussion of the need for specific legislation for the reuse of wastewater, which is a practice of sustainable management of water resources. With the main advantage being the reduction of the demand for drinking water, mitigating the pressure on the sources. Thus, this reduction results from the application of the reuse water to the purposes that can be served by waters with characteristics less restrictive than the characteristics required for human consumption, in the bias of the agro-industrial technology, that is, use for the production of agricultural inputs. Due to the risks to both public health and the environment arising from the practice of reuse of wastewater, the development of the use of such technology will require vigorous State intervention, in the form of the law, where a project exists, without, however, finalizing it. The objective of this intervention will be to maximize the benefits of the practice and reduce the harm associated with its management. Therefore, the present research aims to discuss the standardization of the practice of wastewater reuse in Brazil. The legislative powers of federative entities and successful cases of this closure. In order to do so, a bibliographic review of the concept of water reuse was carried out, addressing its types and applications, also listing the purposes of reuse water application. The bibliographic review also had as objective the survey of the legal framework of the reuse of water in Brazil. From the concept of water reuse, the relationship between the practice of water reuse and the objectives advocated by the National Water Resources Policy can be established. In this way, qualitative research will be done using data in the hypothetical-deductive method, observing the existing norms and the need for specific legislation, analyzing the draft Federal Law on the subject and punctuating the necessary specifications for details, as well as making an exploratory research interviewing actors that are inserted in this need of specific norm, given what is observed in the bureaucratic obstacle due to the absence of specific legislation.