A GOVERNANÇA DA ÁGUA NO SEMIÁRIDO BRASILEIRO

• DOI: 10.22533/at.ed.1842010029

• Palavras-chave: Governança da água, Açudes, Atingidos por barragens, Reassentamento e Participação

• Keywords: Water management, Dams, Affected by Dams, Resettlement and Participation

• Abstract:

  Water resource management

  in the semi-arid Brazilian northeastern region (Ceará) depends heavily upon human intervention in nature, in order to ensure, through

  hydraulic Infrastructure, to storage water for human supply and other productive uses.

  During the last century dams have been built in this region to meet the growing demands

  for water and energy. National and international researches have been showing that

  such works have triggered extremely complex socio-environmental processes. The

  construction of dams has one of the most relevant impacts the displacement of the

  population residing in the flood area, the affected by the dams. This article analyzes the

  main policies that shape water governance in Ceará, seeking to unveil concerns that

  result from the performance and consequences of such infrastructure development,

  namely the involuntary resettlement actions and the degree of participation and

  involvement of the affected populations. The focus will be on the case of Castanhão

  Dam, whose construction flooded around 150,000 acres and forced the displacement

  of the resident population, thus being one of its most significant impacts. This approach

  resulted from contacts (interviews, field visits, on location observation) with the reality

  of Ceará, and with different actors involved about the importance of the construction

  of dams (participants in the process and affected by the process). The physical and

  natural characteristics of the semi-arid region make the planning and participatory

  management of large public dams implemented, stand out as a positive and innovative

  element in the recent experience of water management in the semi-arid region. Such

  an experience can foresee in Cape Verde scenarios of negotiation and participation,

  and come up with questions that may arise and face recently built dams whose impacts,

  particularly on the affected populations, are already evident. 

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