Analysis of water management resources in the municipality of Erechim

• Autor(a) principal: Bernardi, Lidiane
• Data de Publicação: 2014
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista Monografias Ambientais
• Texto Completo: http://periodicos.ufsm.br/remoa/article/view/10944
• topic: Environmental Management; Water Resources; Environmental Plans; Gestão Ambiental; Recursos Hídricos; Planos Ambientais

The objective of this work was to analyze the present status of the management of the water resources in the municipality of Erechim (RS) based on the management plans, statistical data, history and information gathered with the responsible managers by the legal institutions responsible for the public environmental policies of the municipality such as the Municipal Environmental Office (SMMA), the City Hall, Apuaê Inhandava Hydrographic Basin Committee (CBHAI), the Hydrographic Basin Committee of Passo Fundo (CBHPF), the Municipal Environment Protection Committee (COMPAM) and Corsan. The results of this study were based on the understanding of the municipal plans and with the field research it was observed that the municipality possesses all the physical, institutional and legal structures and all necessary elements for the management of the environment, however, these offices have little interaction and the actions for environmental education are made in an isolated form. As per the use of management instruments it was observed that the municipality, through the CBHAI, has created an Action Plan in Water Resources, the Placement of the Water Bodies in preponderant usage classes and has started a plan to charge for the use of the water. The municipality, through the Municipal Environmental Office (SMMA), already uses the Environmental License and also has created the Municipal Environmental Plans, however those plans were not thoroughly discussed with the community and a permanent Environmental Education Program is inexistent. Also there is not a public system for the treatment of sanitary waste and the contracts signed between Corsan and the City Hall are not being complied with and there is not anything concrete, nothing that guarantees that this will happen in due time. There are also difficulties in the public water supply due to the intense climate changes, increase of the population, human activities, and the rivers being of small size and there is also a forecast that there will be drought spells with water rationing in the future. The population carries the weight of the social and environmental costs for the lack of planning, lack of actions and the failure to comply with the contracts. It seems that the  transposition of the Cravo will be only to remedy, in a very precarious way, the problem of potable water in the municipality of Erechim. COMPAM has not been acting in an efficient, technical way and according to the municipal laws. Sometimes it seems oblivious to environmental issues and there is a visible lack of internal organization.