Study about urbanization impact on the hydric resources of Taubate County - Sao Paulo: Analyze of urban area at Judeu stream

Abstract

The current study analyze the expansion of urbanization in Taubate County, SP, but specific on sub-basin of Judeu stream, restricting the period between 1984 to the current situation, after the construction "boom", which received after 2008 many affluence of large capitalists investments in the civil construction. The aim of this project is to understand the impact caused by enlargement of urbanization around hydric resource, taking as focal point the geographic of sub basin Judeu stream, representing an extension of 11,5 kilometers from the source to the river mouth, which 7 kilometers are inside of Taubate urban area.