SILVA, V. C.; http://lattes.cnpq.br/6507554185503295; SILVA, Valquíria Cordeiro da.
Resumo:
Water is a scarce and essential resource for population and its economic
development. The pressures on this resource has been increasing, making it urgent
its preservation and effective and efficient management. The water footprint of an
individual or of a community refers to the total volume of freshwater that is used to
produce the goods and services consumed by the individual or community. This
study aimed to estimate the direct and indirect water consumption of the population
residing in the rural área of the municipality of Pombal - PB using the water footprint
indicator. The method consists of questionnaires dealing with the direct water
consumption, food consumption and consumption of industrial goods, the use of
extended calculators available from Water Footprint Network to estimate the vague of
the indicator and the use gvSIG software for spatial distribution of the results. The
results indicate that the vague of water footprint for residents of the rural área of the
municipality of Pombal its 940.5 m' / cap/ year , se dose to the vague of the urban
área( 957.10 m:/ cap/ year) and lower with the mean vague( 1.240 m'/ cap/ year )
and national ( 1 ,381 m' / cap/ year ) in the literature