Sustentabilidade do uso da água pela pecuária familiar no Alto Camaquã

Abstract

The territory of the Alto Camaquã, located in Serra do Sudeste, includes the municipalities of Bage, Cacapava do Sul, Canguçu, Encruzilhada do Sul, Lavras do Sul, Piratini, Pinheiro Machado and Santana da Boa Vista. After a previous diagnosis of the peculiarities of the region and the issue of identification, we developed a work to analyze land use in relation to the use of water by the family cattle in the territory of the High Camaquã, through a participatory observation in the region. The study was conducted at the Empresa Brasileira de Pesquisas Agropecuárias (Embrapa), in the Laboratório de Estudos em Agroecologia e Recursos Naturais and Laboratório Interdisciplinar de Pesquisas em Ciências Ambientais of Unipampa, Campus São Gabriel, with a line of research in Water Resources Management, with emphasis on water environmental education. After local follow-up, there was the need for environmental education focused on caring for water resources in particular, the springs. Thus increasingly Environmental Management should be participating in the managements of conflicts and complex problems to the balance of the parties involved, through a broader view of the problems encountered.