Sociologia do direito à água: percepções sociais, ambientais e culturais dos atores diante do direito universal à água e do processo de privatização

Abstract

The central idea of this study as having problems starting if the identification is the perception on the part of social actors in relation to the privatization of water and how it occurs. We attempted to observe possible changes every day social site. It is held on the subject worldwide concern that has been compared to water and its management, as access to clean water is a human right essential to life and needs to be preserved and universalized. The central thesis is the perception of the subject. It is noteworthy that the called privatization process is a water concession through public bidding. To verify the problem was used documentary material and empirical research. The initial hypothesis of non-perception process is not sustainable from the data collected. There is a perception of the process, and this perception goes in two ways: in Cochabamba the perception of the process is a negative perception, while in Uruguaiana there is a favorable perception of the privatization process that is occurring. In carrying out the study, there was a documentary exhibition on the process of privatization of water held in Cochabamba in Bolivia and its reception by the actors and also in Brazil, opting in to search on Uruguaiana (on two occasions in 2012 and 2013) because it was the first city of Rio Grande do Sul in which occurred the water concession to a private company. In Uruguaiana found the existence of perception and consensus among stakeholders with the satisfaction and improvement of water quality and services provided by water management by a private company, with positive social changes yet occurred, as the largest awareness and social participation in social issues, and observed "in situ" satisfaction with public policies carried out by municipal government. Regarding the methodology used was through a descriptive, exploratory and the data collected were analyzed qualitatively.