The practice of participatory planning in water resources

The new directions and advances of society bring with them other discussions, new problems, and ideas that move the world and denote the need to define new instruments, means, and techniques to decipher them and work with them in the most appropriate way for the time, space, and society. Planning is one of these essential instruments, which analyzes the current reality and the desired future. Participation has become a basic premise for the development of public policy, as it allows for a better correlation of forces, more efficient decision-making, and distribution of power. Thus, participatory planning proposes to contemplate real demands, socially just future expectations, and effective proposals for action within reach of its objective. Therefore, this work presents an analysis of the construction of the Coreau River Basin Water Resources Plan. It describes the development of the Plan until its approval by the CBH, as well as the CBH's perception of this process and final product.