Zabumbão dam: hydric potential from the perspective of environmental impacts and water management

Water is essential for the maintenance of life on the planet because it is responsible for human and animal survival and the conservation of biodiversity. Its presence or absence describes the historical trajectory of peoples, the occupation of territories, determines habits, cultures, and the future of generations. This article sought to investigate the hydric potential of the Zabumbão dam from the perspective of socio-environmental impacts and water management in the Paramirim-BA region. The present study was carried out based on theoretical and empirical contributions, through a review of systemic literature on websites, documents, such as the National Plan of Water Resources –(Act no. 9433/1997), as well as an on-site visit. Thus, it is understood as a priority to define the functionabilityof water resources management in the cities supplied by the Zabumbão dam, in addition to public policies that contemplate the rational use of water in the region. This measure ensures the multiple applications in a sustainable way, in addition to the insertion of inspection measures by the competent agencies. In the absence of urgent measures or technical studies by the constituted powers to minimize the problems hereinabove mentioned, the Zabumbãodam takes the risk of compromising the object for which the dam was conceived: human supply, irrigated agriculture, and animal quench.