Os desafios da integração dos instrumentos de gestão dos recursos hídricos no semiárido cearense

Abstract

The climatic and topological characteristics of Ceará, which lead to the occurrence of extreme events (dry and flood), motivated the development and implementation of the Water Resources Management Policy. Seeking to allocate more efficiently the water resources under its control, the management organization of Ceará instituted management instruments. Thus, this scientific paper aimed to analyze the main difficulties encountered in the integrated implementation of management tools. To analyze these difficulties, the institutional and legal framework of the State System of Water Resources of Ceará and the experiences acquired with the implementation of the granting and charging for the use of water resources in Ceará were taken as a basis. The study showed that a great difficulty is related to the organizational segments of the administrative structures responsible for the integration and execution of the management instruments. Another major problem, when analyzing the collection, is related to the difference between the volume granted and the billed volume. The study identifies as possible solutions the creation of a specific sector responsible for integrating the management instruments, as well as the adoption of a coefficient in the stipulation of the water tariff, in order to avoid water speculation.