The Governance of Waters in Brazil: an analysis of the role of the university in networks and observatories

Abstract

After twenty years of Brazil's Water Resources National Policy, the strengthening of its management system and the implementation of the respective management instruments in this territory with continental dimensions compose challenges linked to governance and management, which, in turn, require continuous follow-up and monitoring of dimensions and aspects of governance discussed during the process of creating the Water Governance Observatory. Among the learned lessons and synthesized in such work, it is necessary to establish smaller networks for action by hydrographic basin or by Water Resources Management Unit, in order to promote the consolidation of the larger network, which is the observatory in question. According to the recent experience of the authors with this observatory, there is convergence of the addressed themes by the research group of the Laboratory of Engineering of Enterprises of the State University of Campinas and by this larger network, besides the potential of contribution through the establishment of cooperations within of the mentioned smaller networks.