Resumo:
The reality of the contemporary aquatic environment is expressed by the intense pressure that all
surface water sources and aquifers, especially continental ones, are suffering due to the intensive
multiple uses of water. The National Water Resources Policy (PNRH) enshrined in Law No.
9,433/1997, conceives water as a water resource and implements the Charge for the Use of Water
Resources as a management instrument. This study was conducted in the basin of the Verde and Jacaré
rivers, one of the 34 sub-basins that make up the São Francisco River Basin, inserted in the semi-arid
region of Bahia, in the physiographic regions of the Sub-middle São Francisco River, a semi-arid
region, whose scarcity of Water is a reality, which can be worsened by the increase in population and
the different uses of water. It has a methodological basis in Bibliographic Research, which allows us to
know what has already been studied on the subject and relies on the author's life experience in the
study region. The general objective of this work is to evaluate the feasibility of charging for the use of
water resources in the Verde and Jacaré river basins as a means of ensuring the socioeconomic
development of the basin region, taking the São Francisco River basin as a reference. The specific
objectives consist of evaluating possible associations with other sub-basins of the São Francisco that
create a level of revenue through collection that is capable of accommodating fixed costs, even with
the aggregation of the Grande and Corrente rivers; a possible adhesion of Verde and Jacaré to the São
Francisco Main Channel Committee; membership to a single agency in the state of Bahia or to an
agency that covers the region where Verde and Jacaré are located, possibly joining the committees of
the Grande and Corrente rivers, making up a single agency and which they would receive, through
membership for purposes exclusive to collection, the Verde and Jacaré basins. In stage 1, the Water
Planning and Management Region – RPGA is detailed and the simulation of charging in the Verde and
Jacaré river basin and its revenue potential is analyzed. In stage 2, the estimated revenue, and
investments and/or actions to be implemented in RPGA-XVIII are evaluated, according to the
potential flows that this basin demands. The assessment shows that there is no financial sustainability
for the creation of the RPGA Basin Agency for the Verde and Jacaré rivers; In developing this
research, its author focused on the experience of charging in the São Francisco basin, considered a
central reference to honor the principle of hydrographic unity; recommends that the state's water
management body, INEMA, carry out feasibility studies to implement the charge and create an agency
with the committees of the tributary sub-basins of the São Francisco. As a final specific objective, the
net benefit for society in the basin is calculated in the case in which the revenue from the collection is
allocated entirely to sanitation.
