The Commodification of Water and Its Rebates in the Brazilian Semi-Industry

Abstract

Water is a natural and vital resource for all living beings. However, as everything in the capitalist production system is marketable, water is no exception to the rule and becomes inappropriately appropriated and, for the poorer classes, it has restricted use. In Brazil, there are multiple uses and conflicts of water, especially in regions with greater socioeconomic inequalities and climate implications, which reverberate in water scarcity, such as the Brazilian Northeast. In this sense, the present work aims to analyze the uses and conflicts of water in Brazil from the nature-society relationship and the repercussions of the capitalist mode of production through the unequal and market distribution of water, in addition to addressing the issue of water from integrated way, bringing human actions to the debate, as well as observing the correlation of water scarcity in the northeastern sertão region and whether this determines the access to water of the poor populations that live there. From this perspective, the procedures proposed for data collection and obtaining results were through bibliographic research. In the bibliographic research, authors such as: Ribeiro (2008), Júnior and Barros (2020), Machado and Torres (2012), Ferreira (2019), Silva (2016), among others who contributed to the theoretical basis were used.