Information about the water crisis in Sao Paulo offered by the watershed committees

Abstract

The water crisis in Sao Paulo between 2013 and 2015 was considered one of the greatest in the history of the state, and it was widely covered by the Media. The issue is how groups that are expected to provide information (as they are considered Government bodies, such as the case of the Watershed Committee) tackled the water crisis in Sao Paulo. This defining issue has driven this quanti-qualitative research on news published in the websites of Watershed Committees that manage the Cantareira System (Committees of Alto Tiete and Piracicaba, Capivari, and Jundiai-PCJ) and the Brazilian Network of Watershed Organisms (Rebob-Rede Brasil de Organismos de Bacias Hidrograficas).