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The great environmental disasters in the various areas of the world, because the human interventions, for the advancement of capitalism, have brought to the fore the discussions about natural resources in terms of quantity and quality and the relationship between society and nature. The different ways of appropriating natural resources and the non-conformity of uses in different societies can generate conflicts. Most of the time the conflict is generated because the scarcity of natural resources. But what about the Amazon, which is rich in natural resources, why conflict can happen? The main objective of this article is to discuss the environmental policy in the context of water and water resources in the Legal Amazon and the factors that generate Water Conflicts. The information used on water conflicts in the legal Amazon were extracted from the reports of the Comissão Pastoral da Terra for the years 2007 to 2015, making it possible to construct spatial representations of conflicts. The theoretical reference on politics, environmental issue and water is essential to unravel the issues that generate conflicts over water in the Legal Amazon region. It is believed that negotiated management is an element to equalize the social impacts of water use in the State and in the Legal Amazon. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]