A escassez dos recursos hídricos na sociedade moderna contemporânea : a extrafiscalidade tributária e a otimização de seu aproveitamento

Abstract

The present thesis studies water situation based on a generic analysis of its quantitative and qualitative availability in the planet, as well as its endangerment due to the satisfaction of human necessities, according to the model of society we have today. The objective is to verify the feasibility of the use of extrataxation, mainly in terms of the Urban Real Estate Tax, as an efficient instrument to contribute to its better and more rational use. In this context, the degradation of the water resources is studied here from the point of view of the social model, based on the hyperconsumerism, which promotes economic policies blinded by the increasing necessity of growth and causes an uncontrolled attack to the planet natural resources. In this way, water and other natural assets are vilified due to the promotion of their use inside of a model of self-destructive consumption, which ignores the fact that it does not come from a cornucopia. In this way, the analysis of the perspective of water mercantilization, mainly because of the privatization of the services which assure the citizens access to it, proved its distance from the condition of humanity common asset, since it is available to the ones who can afford the prices established by the market. Finally, the adoption of mechanisms inherited to the extrataxation, object of an increasing number of regulations proposals in terms of creating tax incentives to the ones who adhere to actions which enhance and rationalize the use of the water resources, are an alternative capable of reaching excellent results.