Water as a transnational element: a reflection on governance and global environmental management

Considering water as an essential good for life on earth, reflecting on management and governance will be timely relevant. Governance for equitable water allocation is closely linked to a decentralized regime without strengthening competence at the subnational level. Having made such observations, the present study through the inductive method and the literature review through the thought of classical and contemporary authors, by the succinct writing format, does not wish to propose or hope to present solutions for water management, but rather to offer some contribution for a transnational look, as a possibility of a civilizing governance of an indispensable resource to life in all its senses, water. Considering that the causal elements of inequalities are territorial, there is a lack of coordination that seeks solutions to water, sometimes too much, sometimes in scarcity, sometimes polluted. From a demographic perspective, they reflect the intrinsic characteristics of local dynamics, diversity in access, including basic sanitation and the concentration of the deficit in certain population groups, whose 1 Recebido em: 10/07/2020 / Aprovado em: 07/12/2020. 2 Doctoral student in Univali Legal Science with a Double Degree with the Doctorate in Water and Sustainable Development from Instituto Universitario del Agua y de Ciencias Ambientales (IUACA), University of Alicante / Spain. Master in Regional Development: State Institutions and Democracy. Lawyer. Graduated in Legal and Social Sciences (Law) University of Passo Fundo UPF / RS. Specialist in Labor Law and Labor Procedure, Specialist in Civil Procedural Law. Specialist in International Law. Graduate Student in Higher Education Management and Teaching. E-mail: francine@ctadvocacia.com. 3 PhD in History from the University of Murcia (1993). Master in Sustainable Management and Water Technologies (Institute of Water and Environmental Sciences at the University of Alicante) and Master in Water Technologies (CUJAE, Havana). It has the theme of Water Economy as a research line. In Spain, he is Full Professor of History and Economic Institutions at the University of Alicante -UA. He is currently Director of the Institute of Water and Environmental Sciences IUACA, linked to the University of Alicante and also Director of projects at INECA, linked to IUACA. In Brazil, he is a visiting professor in the Master and Doctorate Program in Legal Science at the University of Vale do Itajaí UNIVALI. E-mail: jmelgar@ua.es.