2019-02-252019-02-252016FURQUIM, Maria Gláucia Dourado; ABDALA, Klaus de Oliveira. Caracterização preliminar da agricultura irrigada em Cristalina-GO, a estreita relação entre o desenvolvimento sustentável e o crescimento econômico. IRRIGA: brazilian journal of irrigation and drainage, Botucatu, v. 1, n. 1, ed. esp, p. 129-134, 2016.e- 1808-8546http://repositorio.bc.ufg.br/handle/ri/17144The study portrays the challenge of producing food, by the intensification of invested capital used on technologies in the field, in balance with the environmental preservation and the sustainability of the agricultural practice. In this sense, an exploratory and descriptive research was performed to outline the current scenery of irrigation in Cristalina, State of Goiás, in relation to the main institutional legal elements in the regulation and control of water resources that is ANA’s competence, once the management process of water in irrigation is a parameter that beacon the levels of development and competitiveness in this sector. Especially in Cristalina, where the availability of water for irrigation is a generating factor of inter and intrasectoral conflict. It was confirmed that there is an organization of irrigators, with the implementation of actions in relation to the water use efficiency, facing the storage of rain water in dams and the soil profile improvement in a way to get an allocative efficiency in the use of water, and a consequent increase in the agricultural income to the detriment of the use of water resources in order to overcome the obstruction that the misalignment of regulatory organizations exercise in the promotion of a sustainable irrigated agriculture.porAcesso AbertoIrrigaçãoTecnologiaGestãoIrrigationTechnology managementArtigo10.15809/irriga.2016v1n01