Law of water - legal trajectory, conflicts and social participation

Abstract

This article contains a concise analysis of the Brazilian management of water resources, based on the national water resources management policy, examining aspects related to normative forecasting, implementation of management tools, some of the main conflicts and social participation carried out by the hydrographic basin committees, which are the water resources assemblies, as indicated in the legal framework. For this purpose, a bibliographic review was carried out, which included classic and contemporary authors, laws and resolutions, as well as minutes of meetings of the hydrographic basin related organisms. The results obtained emphasize that shared water management, as recommended in the legal framework, still needs to overcome obstacles of different nature in order to be effective, since the equation between decentralization of power and social participation still requires adjustments for a balance of forces.