The crisis of water and socio economic development
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Magda Cristina Villanueva Franco (*)
On the date of March 22 is celebrated the World Water Day, a topic vital to the planet, and that this month mobilizes civil society and the government throughout the country and the world in order to publicize events and extend the discussions in around water resources. And to facilitate this goal the National Water Agency (ANA) has created the "Water of March", space that disseminates important topics as the problem of scarcity.
This date was chosen and established in 1992 during the UN Conference on Environment and Development (Echo 92) in Rio de Janeiro, and aims to stimulate reflections on the situation of water resources, raise awareness among social groups, in addition to stimulating the implementation of practical measures to conserve this resource.
As can be seen in recent times, several are news, articles and other forms of publications, which refer to the shortage of water, however, that indeed, this concern originated with water?
To start this reflection is necessary to consider that, according to scholars, the total area of the Earth is 510.1 million km ², and that 70.7% are covered by water, the equivalent of about 360.6 million km ². Rivers and wetlands equals an area of 17.6 million km ², the polar ice caps and glaciers occupy 16.4 million square kilometers and lakes of fresh water and salt account for a total of 2.1 million km ². Therefore, the total volume of water on the planet is 1,385,984,610 km ³. But this total 97.3% are made of salt water and only 2.75% of fresh water. And this percentage of fresh water, only 1.5% are rivers and lakes and 98.5% is groundwater.
In this brief review that there is, the total volume of freshwater available on earth is only 0,008%. So what we can see is that humanity after long studies reached the difficult conclusion that water is a finite resource. And for these reasons the term shortages, according to the United Nations - UN is related to the imbalance between availability and demand, or refers to the amount of water quality available for consumption.
However, it is under this view, we can understand the real context of scarcity, because if you consider the constant and significant loss of riparian forests, protect the rivers and springs, soil degradation, the dense urbanization, industrialization and the intense opening continuous agricultural frontiers, among other forms of degradation, you can clearly see that, certainly, we take a path that trails in fact the lack d 'water for consumption and primary needs.
But the scenario presented, it should be noted that, although we are living in Honor of a water crisis, there are several ways to get the balance in order to reverse the current framework.
First it is necessary to seek part of the current system of management of water resources, established by Law 9433/1997, whose principle is decentralization and participation in decision making processes. It is also necessary that the charge of the enforcement of legislation, it is important to the law as ally and not as an obstacle.
It should be also highlight the responsibility of the state, the effective implementation of public policies that seek serious realize the development of sustained, and finally, it is essential that individuals do their part, committing itself to the preservation through Simple habits, because only through these actions we are truly building a company committed to responsible and environmental quality of life and therefore is no longer possible to talk about economic growth without commitment to the preservation of water resources and the environment in general .
These findings are not far from our day to day, just look at the behavior of nature and the latest developments in national and global scenario, so we can understand that the natural disasters meant alerts.
In this context, considering the ideas presented, we can conclude is that the current economic crisis that has developed is actually part of a major crisis that humanity is facing in all sectors, and we are leading the adoption of new attitudes and practices, breaking paradigms.
* It is the Martinelli Lawyer Business Law, specialized in law Socioambiental - PUC / PR, Management of Municipal Water - UFPR and Master in Public Policy - UNIVALI E-mail: magda@martinelli.adv.br
Source: Environment Australia
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