Comitês de bacia hidrográfica: natureza jurídica, competência e composição.

Abstract

Basin Committees aim is to guarantee the interests plurality in the destination to be given to water resources in scope of each basin, making enable management with participation of each water user sector, promoting decentralization of water resources management. Basin delimit Committees performance area, independently of its extension what can generate interests conflicts, therefore, a basin can belong more than one administrative territory, or more than one country. Basin concept, formulated by Hydrology and Geology sciences gains a new means water resources management politics, exactly to be the unit that has a peculiar institutional framework to administration and deliberation on water resources use. Thus, this work objectives was to clarify the legal nature, ability and composition of basin committees. The committees are collegiate agencies with advisory, normative and deliberative attributions, composites by governament, water users and civil organizations representatives and are considered true "Parliaments of Waters".