WATER (IN)JUSTICE AND AGRIBUSINESS EXPANSION: PESTICIDE CONTAMINATION IN DRINKING WATER IN TUPÃ, BRAZIL (2014–2024)

Suelen Amanda Rodrigues; Juliane Cristina Forti; Michel Eustáquio Dantas Chaves

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DOI

10.29327/9786527226680.1449510

Título do Trabalho

WATER (IN)JUSTICE AND AGRIBUSINESS EXPANSION: PESTICIDE CONTAMINATION IN DRINKING WATER IN TUPÃ, BRAZIL (2014–2024)

Autores

Suelen Amanda Rodrigues
Juliane Cristina Forti
Michel Eustáquio Dantas Chaves

Modalidade

IRSA - Congresso Mundial de Sociologia Rural (01/10/2025 a 20/01/2026)

Área temática

IRSA 25 - Hydrosocial Territories and Water (In)Justice in Rural Worlds

Data de Publicação

06/08/2026

País da Publicação

Brasil

Idioma da Publicação

pt-BR

Página do Trabalho

https://www.even3.com.br/anais/sober-irsa2026/1449510-water-(in)justice-and-agribusiness-expansion--pesticide-contamination-in-drinking-water-in-tupa-brazil-(201420

ISBN

978-65-272-2668-0

Palavras-Chave

water justice, pesticides, agribusiness, water governance, hydro-social territories.

Resumo

Water contamination by pesticides has become one of the most invisible dimensions of environmental injustice in rural territories shaped by agribusiness expansion. Rather than being understood merely as a natural resource or an object of technical management, water must be analyzed as a socio-political construction embedded in power relations, regulatory frameworks, and territorial disputes. This study examines drinking water quality in the municipality of Tupã, São Paulo State, Brazil, between 2014 and 2024, a region marked by intensive monoculture production and widespread pesticide use. The research analyzes how agricultural practices, state regulation, and water governance intersect to produce differentiated exposures to chemical risk. The empirical analysis is based on secondary data from Brazil's Drinking Water Quality Information System (Sisagua), combined with an examination of national potability standards and their regulatory changes over time, particularly Ordinance GM/MS No. 888/2021. The results indicate recurrent detection of pesticide active ingredients in groundwater sources used for public supply, including compounds classified as highly hazardous. Although the quantified concentrations generally remain within Brazilian legal limits, these thresholds are substantially more permissive than those adopted in the European Union, revealing regulatory asymmetries that normalize contamination. Furthermore, the absence of systematic monitoring and incomplete data reporting limit public transparency and obscure cumulative exposure risks. The study argues that such dynamics configure a situation of water (in)justice, in which the economic benefits of agribusiness are spatially and socially concentrated, while environmental and health risks are redistributed to the urban population through drinking water. By highlighting the political production of potability standards and the governance failures surrounding pesticide regulation, the paper contributes to sociological debates on water justice, hydro-social relations, and the contradictions of rural development under extractivist models.

Título do Evento: 16th World Congress of Rural Sociology and 64th Congress of the Brazilian Society of Rural Economics, Management and Sociology
Cidade do Evento: Porto Alegre
Título dos Anais do Evento: Anais do 64º Congresso da SOBER e XVI Congresso Mundial de Sociologia Rural (IRSA)
Nome da Editora: Even3
Meio de Divulgação: Meio Digital
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RODRIGUES, Suelen Amanda; FORTI, Juliane Cristina; CHAVES, Michel Eustáquio Dantas. WATER (IN)JUSTICE AND AGRIBUSINESS EXPANSION: PESTICIDE CONTAMINATION IN DRINKING WATER IN TUPÃ, BRAZIL (2014–2024).. In: Anais do 64º Congresso da SOBER e XVI Congresso Mundial de Sociologia Rural (IRSA). Anais...Porto Alegre(RS) UFRGS, 2026. Disponível em: https//www.even3.com.br/anais/sober-irsa2026/1449510-WATER-(IN)JUSTICE-AND-AGRIBUSINESS-EXPANSION--PESTICIDE-CONTAMINATION-IN-DRINKING-WATER-IN-TUPA-BRAZIL-(201420. Acesso em: 25/09/2026