Os usos da água e o papel dos comitês de bacia: um estudo de caso

Abstract

The focus of this paper is to analyze the profile of the representative members of river basin committees, constituted to influence decision-making around public water policies. The committees act as a “Water Parliament”, where water resource management plans in their territories are discussed and prepared. To this end, the survey of the number of committees and the number of participants in the state of Santa Catarina was initially carried out, followed by the application of a Survey, inviting members to answer the listed questions. Members are elected by their peers, to represent, in addition to the interests of their group / social segment, to defend public interests and contribute to the management of water resources. It was observed that the representatives of the committees, in this state, without their majority are male, of the middle and upper classes, have a high level of education, however, 62% of the respondents consider that the subjects treated are partially understood or do not understand by the participants, thus indicating the need to expand training on deliberative matters.