Water Resources Management – Environmental and Legal Conceptions Applied to the Protection of Urban Ponds

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This research is an integral part of a previous one in which was aimed to study the advance of urban space in ponds’ areas. However, the topics here only aim to discuss the main legislations that should protect our water bodies, in special the ponds in Feira de Santana city, according to the environmental sciences. For this purpose, it was done a bibliographical research about the main concepts of lakes and ponds, followed by a survey to the federal, state and municipal legislations that deal with water resources. It was verified that these legislations do not address the ponds directly, but only rivers and river springs. Even though, the ponds from the place above mentioned are also considered river springs.