Water resources management: the scenario of Brazil's Northeast

• Autor(a) principal: Campos, José Nilson Beserra
• Data de Publicação: 1993
• Outros Autores: Vieira, Vicente de P.P.B.
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista de Administração Pública
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.fgv.br/rap/article/view/8669
• topic: management; water resources; semi-arid region of the Northeast.; Gestión; los recursos hídricos; región semiárida del Nordeste.; Gerenciamento; recursos hídricos; região semi-árida do Nordeste.

This paper analyzes the present institutional and legal scenario of Brazil regarding to the establishment of a water resources management system for the semi-arid Northeast Region. The water laws in Brazil were, most of them, written based on the social and hydrologic conditions of the South of the Country. The Brazil's Constitution, promulgated in 1988, introduced a concept where the dominion of the water can change from that Union to the States according to the point on the river. Besides, there are situations where three institutions are responsible for providing license for withdraw. This shocks against basic principles of water management. The paper also presents some suggestions in order to establish, in the future, a more suitable juridic institutional basis for the regional water resources management system.