Análise da política pública do programa um milhão de cisternas para a gestão dos recursos hídricos no município de São José do Egito - PE.

Abstract

Public Policies are relevant means of assistance social necessity, as away way of solving conflict due in absence of any service. The Public Policy of the One Million Rural Cisterns Program - P1MC concretized out in the municipality of São José do Egito - PE reached 119 rural communities for the capture of rainwater with the intention of teaching Northeastern people to live together with the semi-arid. Based on the assumption that effective public policies for water issues are necessary, the objective of this study was to analyze the Public Policy of the One Million Rural Cisterns Program and its possible consequences on the quality of life of the beneficiaries in the municipality of São José of Egypt - PE from the twentieth century through the technique of content analysis proposed by Laurence Bardin. The methodology of content analysis was composed of three phases for its conduction: organization of the analysis, coding and categorization and treatment of results, inference and interpretation. The results of the research identified that the P1MC has resulted in a better quality of life for the beneficiaries, since the rainwater has good quality for drinking and cooking, enough for a drought period of approximately one year, it was not verified the existence of diseases of water transport by the ingestion of the water of the cisterns. It brought awareness of how to manage the water resource, financially, lowered the costs of buying for human intake and promoted social inclusion. However, the role of municipal public power in water resources management has demonstrated the absence of effective actions to control the water problem, through management issues and non-application of the Law.