A gestão das águas em Alagoas: um olhar sobre os membros de comitês de bacia hidrográficas

Abstract

Water management, as a public domain asset, presents itself as one of the greatest challenges facing society in recent times, considering its fundamental importance in human life and the environment. This article aims to analyze the profile of representatives of river basin committees in the State of Alagoas, Brazil. The Committees are collegiate bodies that have normative, consultative and deliberative attributions, whose objective is to promote planning and decision-making about the multiple uses of waterresources within the scope of the hydrographic basin, a region comprised by a territory and by several courses Water. After analyzing the respondents' data, it is observed that the socioeconomic profile of the representatives of the Hydrographic Basin Committees in the State of Alagoas are mostly male, middle and upper classes, have a high level of education and have more than 41 years.