ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION AS A PROPOSAL FOR INSTRUMENTALIZATION OF SOCIAL ACTORS FOR THE MANAGEMENT OF WATER RESOURCES IN THE URUSSANGA RIVER BASIN, IN SANTA CATARINA, BRAZIL

Abstract

Management of water resources, in a decentralized and participative way, in a river basin, demands an uninterrupted process of education, with a view to the participation of the representatives from public power, water user and in the decisions and agreements of the different levels Institutional framework of the National Water Resources Management System (SINGREH - Sistema Nacional de Gerenciamento de Recursos Hídricos). In order to educate the participants in the participatory process of the members of the Urussanga River Basin Committee, in the southernmost region of Santa Catarina, the hydrographic region of the South Atlantic, Brazil, several Environmental Education activities were developed in 2006-2016, in order to instrumentalize them to ensure the management of water resources in the river basin in a coherent and responsible manner. Continuous Environmental Education to the representatives of the different segments of the Urussanga River Basin Committee and community in general makes it possible to collectively construct new values and attitudes towards the environment and broadens the systemic knowledge about the river basin, mainly on the use of land And the interference of these uses in the availability and quality of surface and groundwater in the ten municipalities within the river basin.