Ecotoxicologia como ferramenta de monitoramento na gestão municipal de recursos hídricos no município de Barão de Cocais-MG

• Autor(a) principal: Maria Cristina Carvalho Silva Guimaraes
• Data de Publicação: 2007
• Tipo de documento: Trabalho de conclusão de curso
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UFMG
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/1843/BUBD-9GANEU
• topic: Recursos hídricos; Ecotoxicologia; Gerenciamento municipal de recursos hídricos; Toxicologia ambiental; Barão de Cocais (MG); Recursos hídricos

This work objective is the bibliographic survey and the discussion about the municipal management of hydric resources in Barão de Cocais city MG, using preliminary ecotoxicológicos tests performed in 2003 as a support and having the Ecotoxicologia as an auxiliary tool in order to contribute with the development of mobilization actions, environmental education, effective monitoring and techniques which can subsidy the hydric resource management. Although the researches which aim diagnose and treat degraded aquatic environments have increased in the last decades, magic and/or instantaneous solutions dont exist to solve the environmental degradation. The development of an environmental conscience, more than punishment measures, has still been the most efficient way to avoid the big concretization of the water crisis, predicted to a very near future.Its sure that the development of the management model and the democratic principles will need more experiences and studies, mainly comparatives. It seems to be inevitable that, if the society is able to solve its problems concerning sustainable development, that paradigm offers a tool that helps to improve the water development in complexities and conflicts nowadays (GRIGG, 1998:12).The current generations need a new culture related to the use of water, since, besides the guarantee of their own well being and survive, they must cultivate the concerning with the next generations and with the nature, which have also the right to that concerning.Being the region of Barão de Cocais and Santa Bárbara rich in fauna and flora and even being able to count with hydric bodies in their natural state; however they have intense activity of mining and iron metallurgy, being essential the quality monitoring of aquatic environments in the region.