- Research Article
- 10.17058/redes.v30i1.19347
Insegurança hídrica na Bacia do Sinos, RS/Brasil: evidências dos riscos na atual governança da água
- Aug 08, 2025
- Redes
- Julio Cesar Dorneles Da Silva + 1 more +1
Water insecurity is on the current agenda of concerns at different scales, from global to local, regarding water governance. The theme gained ground in the final decades of the 20th century and at the beginning of the 21st century. The so-called integrated management of water resources present in the legal and institutional system of water resources in Brazil is linked to the approach known as integrated river basin management (IRBM). The Sinos River Basin (SRB), in the State of Rio Grande do Sul (RS), Brazil, is an area where there was an exponential increase in the demand for water and the release of polluting loads into the basin, in very accentuated processes following the 1970s. This article aims to present evidence of water insecurity experienced in the SRB due to human actions and climate variability in the territory. The research methodology in terms of objective is exploratory, in terms of technical procedures it is bibliographic and documentary and is characterized as qualitative research in the field of human sciences and applied social sciences. The research brings together evidence of impacts generated by human actions and extreme weather events that exposed water insecurity in the study basin. The findings in this SRB case study clearly demonstrate that RS's water resources management system requires governance improvements in order to minimize environmental, social and economic impacts.
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