Protocolo de intervenção como contribuição à gestão de conflito pelo uso da água na bacia hidrográfica do Rio Formoso

Abstract

The Tocantins-Araguaia hydrographic region is of fundamental importance in the national context, since it is characterized by the expansion of the agricultural frontier, mainly related to grain cultivation (an activity that uses water for irrigation) and the hydroelectric potential. Water has an importance in the development of society that has long been part of agreements and treaties, which seek to regulate its uses, due to an unstable management during the period of history. Thus, the complexity of the conflicts demands, more and more, the adoption of an adequate treatment, in order to implement new resolution strategies as an alternative to judicialization. Some basin committees do not make use of the attribution of administratively arbitrating the conflicts under their jurisdiction, either due to lack of regulation, lack of knowledge and insecurity in the face of the forms and complexities involving the disputes. In this sense, a proposal for an intervention protocol to resolve conflicts over water use adds a contribution to water governance and to the instruments of water resources management policy. The present work made use of information pointed out and analyzed in the situation of conflict over water use in the hydrographic basin of the Formoso river, located in the state of Tocantins. It contextualized the problem, evaluated the measures adopted for the execution of legal agreements in the negotiation process, and described the implementation of water use control instruments in the watershed. Finally, it was possible with the employment of the investigative method, using the descriptive and qualitative approach to identify the phases of the procedure and build the structure of the intervention protocol, characterizing the elements that integrate the tasks, activities and procedures of the administrative protocol proposal for conflict resolution.