Irregular exploration of underground water resources in the city of Pombal: the role of the public ministry in creating an effective supervision mechanism

The work studied the exploration of underground water resources in the municipality of Pombal, as well as the negative consequences of this capture, when carried out without observing the technical and normative specifications. Based on the hypothesis that the lack of inspection, as well as the scarcity of surface water, made the population and the productive sector to seek even more this type of resource, the role of the Public Prosecutor's Office, which is an inspector of the legal system, became evident. to act in the protection of the environment and demonstrate the attribution of this body to act as an inducer in the articulation of the public entities involved, in order to adopt a pedagogical stance on the problems detected and to stop environmental irregularities. To this end, the research argued that the conduct adjustment term is an effective extrajudicial legal tool to correct the environmental offense and found that it can be used by the Public Ministry for this purpose. The work limited the object of study to the Municipality of Pombal / PB by the size of the territorial extension, used the documentary method to study the environmental norms and legal procedures related to the abstraction of groundwater and used explanatory research, with the purpose of identifying the factors responsible for the social phenomenon. The work presented, as a final product, a model of conduct adjustment term to be forwarded to the Pombal Public Prosecutor's Office, for the protection of the environment.