Bases para a proposição do Plano Municipal de Gerenciamento de Recursos Hídricos em Conselheiro Lafaiete - MG

Abstract

This study mainly focused on the preparation of background to the proposal of the Municipal Plan for Management of Water Resources in the city of Conselheiro Lafaiete - MG. The city is inserted into Paraopeba River basin, and this, in the Maranhão River sub-basin. For this analysis, it was made a review which had as its source of data the technical reports of the Instituto Mineiro de Gestão das Águas in the period 2001 to 2010, the documents from the collection of CBH - Paraopeba were also used, such documents support the diagnosis of the Master Plan of Water Resources of the river basin. This analysis was performed on data from water quality and availability. The results pointed to a situation of extensive environmental degradation in the waters that cross the county. This technical analysis was related to the municipal, state and federal laws to compose the frame of public policies on water in the municipality. The Alto Paraopeba, in which the municipality is inserted, will receive investments in sectors directly related to mining that will produce a minimum increase of 85% in regional GDP over the next 15 years (Barbieri and Ruiz, 2010). Currently, the city is a regional center, the most populous city and is therefore an area with considerable population density, primarily urban. In the years 2009 and 2010 there was an extensive review of the municipal urban planning devices, including many with intersections in water management, especially in urban waters. Thus, Conselheiro Lafaiete is facing numerous challenges in the environmental area, especially within the waters, which the technical reports evaluated as extensively degraded. In this context, we propose some actions that cooperate in producing a framework for municipal water resources management involving integrated planning activities in education, environmental sanitation and environmental conservation.