O direito à água no Brasil e no Equador

Abstract

The study compared the fundamental human right to water, observing the legal systems of Brazil and Ecuador is important to delimit the treatment of the natural resource water. The analysis of the issue through the principle of sustainability, which has interactions with the justice and human rights, which is understood as a constitutional principle of binding, and which promotes universal dignity of living beings. The approach highlights the essentiality of the natural resource water and the issue of water scarcity, a situation that has worsened in Brazil. Due to the need for water and the deterioration of its scarcity, also works out the legal treatment accorded by the law of Brazil, giving emphasis to the principle of human dignity and the legal treatment given by Ecuador, which has biocentric vision and already promotes in its Constitution, the very nature as a subject of rights. The conclusion of the study points out, finally, the measures that deserve to be taken to better preservation of the natural resource water.