Water governance: a systematic analysis of challenges, issues and proposals for sustainable water management

Abstract

Water governance is a means of achieving efficiency and efficiency in management, with a growing trend towards the need for sustainable management, especially in the context of increasing water scarcity. The aim was to carry out a theoretical approach, allowing to identify key principles, attributes and values, by conducting a review of scientific production available on Scopus, SciELO and ScienceDirect. As a result, issues of centralization and fragmentation in water management planning and capacity are highlighted, emphasizing as a most outstanding feature, the direct relationship between governance and water management; concluding that, there are limitations in technical and professional capacity and the promotion of participation of actors.