Análise da gestão de recursos hídricos: um estudo de caso do Comitê da Bacia Hidrográfica do Rio das Velhas

Abstract

The present research constitutes an analysis on the main public policies of water resources related to the institutional management of the River Basin Watershed Committee (CBHRV, in Portuguese), one of the oldest and most active in Minas Gerais and Brazil. Considered as a management model still under consolidation, water management by basin organizations, with committees in particular, has been increasingly applied in the institutional field, but still demands greater knowledge and conceptual and practical understanding of its legal and social actions . The objective is to discuss and analyze these policies from the point of view of management and its democratic and participatory processes, in order to identify the main possibilities and restrictions that currently exist. Thus, the organizational structure implemented in the said committee from its foundation in 1998 to the year 2015 is evaluated based on the preliminary selection criteria of participation, transparency and practices, among others possible. These were selected because they enable the work to identify diverse and interdependent institutional relations of governance in the committee and, in general, in the public water policies in Minas Gerais. For this, the research holds discussions on legal, institutional, economic-financial and integration dimensões that are linked to the selected committee. In methodological terms, a field research meeting is used, carried out for several years in the committee itself and within the institutional structures of water resources ("participant observation"); critical study of the main deliberations related directly or indirectly to water management in general and the CBHRV in particular ("documentary analysis"); interpretation of the individual interviews conducted with the main leaderships and personalities linked to the committee and / or the proposed research theme ("content analysis"). This set of research is used here to demonstrate how, from the chosen case study of its administrative and institutional procedures can favor or prevent more democratic and participatory contexts in a four-sectors management model (civil society, state public power , Municipal public power, private sector)