A Gestão Municipal dos Recursos Hídricos: os desafios do gerencimento participativo dos comitês de Bacia Hidrográfica

Abstract

The study approaches the municipal management of the water resources in Brazil and the challenges of the participative management in the Committees of Hydrographic Basin. From the Constitution of the Federative Republic of Brazil of 1988, the water resources had started to be of exclusively public domain of the Union and States members. In January of 1997, the Law nº 9.433/97 that instituted the National Politics of Water Resources and the National System of Water Resources Management was approved, what changed the paradigms of the sector, in the perspective to implement a systemic and decentralized management, taking in account all the elements of the environment and providing to all the social actors the possibility to participate of the process by means of the Committees of Hydrographic Basin. This work also discusses the City´s role in this new model of management, since at a first moment it does not have the title of the water resource and the responsible started to be the Committee of Hydrographic Basin. In July of 2000, Law nº 9.984/00, created the National Water Agency, which has as mission to implement the National Politics of Water Resources and the National System of Water Resources Management, in joint with the other members of this system. Finally, it analyzes the relation between the City and the Committees of Hydrographic Basin, concerning its participation and possible concurrent jurisdictions.