Violaçao do direito à água no Brasil

Abstract

In the attempt to contribute to the search for the universalization of access to water and sanitation in Brazil, the research is, at first, to reflect on the right to water, both in the perspective of natural law and legal recognition. It is notorious that there is, in fact, a broad legal framework applicable to the Brazilian national territory, which frames water as a basic human right. In contrast, it is noticeable that there is, expressively, the denial of this right, that is, there is a spatial materiality of violation of the right to water. Thus, the empirical panorama of rape in Brazil is constructed from data that express the magnitude of non-access and its spatialization, as well as data that demonstrate the relationship between water and its implications for public health. Finally, conflicts over access to water are evoked to highlight contexts in which the law is in a situation of violation or threat. Then, the problem is worked in light of concepts and geographical categories in order to highlight the locus of reproduction of the violation of law. In the meantime, the interpretation brought from the concept of "capitalist reproduction of space" and of the category "territory" allows us to perceive the perversity and consequences of the primacy of exchange value over the value of use. In the field of possibilities, the point is made towards the horizon of decentralization and social participation in the management of water resources, as instruments and mechanisms of utmost importance for the democratization of access to water.