Banca de QUALIFICAÇÃO: JEREMIAS ROCHA PEREIRA

WATER MACROSYSTEM AND ITS EFFECTS IN JATI TERRITORY, CEARÁ.

Macrosystem; water works; Jati; Territorial transformations.

In Brazil, several projects and political initiatives at the federal and state levels have been developed throughout history aimed at resolving/alleviating/mitigating problems resulting from severe drought periods registered in the Northeast region. As an example, we have the Açudagem Program, which emerged as a short and medium term alternative benefiting states in the northeast region, among which Ceará stands out – with a less privileged rainy regime, with almost all of its territory in the drought polygon. It has 12 river basins, with Jaguaribe as the most important, which is composed of three basins (high, medium and low Jaguaribe), together they have approximately 54% of the state's water storage capacity (CEARÁ, 2015). From the point of view of efficient water management, the transposition water works Project for the Integration of the São Francisco River with the Northern Northeast Watersheds (PISF) and the Ceará Water Belt (CAC), have been leaving effects and marks in the territories where pass. These marks and effects directly and indirectly cause social and environmental transformations and impacts. What is perceived in this

logic of global ideas and local actions, are environmental and social problems that manifest themselves locally, leaving their mark on the urban and rural landscape, on the environment and on ways of life. To achieve our objective, which is to understand the relevance of the water macrosystem of the state of Ceará designed/installed in the Jati territory and its effects on the socio-environmental dynamics, a bibliographic research will be carried out where we will highlight the ideas of Santos (1993), Saboia (2015) and Brito (2016) along with many others that may bring us concerns and contributions. We will also carry out documentary research where we will analyze laws, projects, decrees, documents on water projects and policies in Ceará and other documents on the water issue in the Northeast and in Brazil. The field research constitutes another stage in which we will analyze the water works in the municipality of Jati and at the same time, through interviews, we will try to understand the marks, effects and territorial transformations of these. Finally, the data, records and other materials will be organized and analyzed so that from there we can investigate in more depth and consis what we

we propose to search. These megaprojects that are part of a complex water macrosystem are not accompanied by local benefits, their idealization arises from the discourse of water scarcity and the need to offer water for human consumption, their materialization marks the territories in a permanent and diverse way and their usefulness is related to economic projects and the interests of capital that make use of the drought discourse and based on these, legitimize their interests. These interests being extraterritorial leave local marks that need to be researched and understood.