Resumo:
Water resources constitute one of the most accentuated elements in the discussion of environmental issues being placed as one of the main challenges to be faced by humanity in the 21st century. This research looks at the current moment of drought that is being experienced in the Northeast remitting to an awareness raising about the proper use of water resources and to a proposal that the existence of a management of the water resources is of fundamental importance to the preservation of these. It presents as a general goal the analysis of the management of water resources in the municipality of Jaicós in the state of Piauí aiming to evaluate the procedures which are being implemented for the conservation, distribution and organization of the available resources, furnished by the public power through ethical precepts. It presents the management of the water resources in the municipality of Jaicós in the state of Piauí discoursing about the effects which a bad management of the public powers have on the municipality related to the issue of management. The need for studies which evaluate the water availability and demands within a perspective of sustainability in the use of this resource is justified making use of the stimulus resulting from the creation of a new legal framework which supports the management of water resources based on ethical principles. The research mentions at the end that what is lacking in most of our cities, including in Jaicós, is not water but a certain cultural pattern which adds in ethics and improves the efficiency of the political work of the governments, of organized society and of public and private actions, since they are responsible for managing the economic development in general and the protection of potable water in particular.
