Incentivo ao uso de mecanismos poupadores de água em áreas residenciais de Monteiro – PB: capacidade adaptativa face à intermitência do abastecimento.

Abstract

Cities are daily exposed to the vulnerabilities of risks, damages and consequences. These issues become evident in municipalities in the Brazilian semiarid region due to the characteristics of this climate. Therefore, physical constraints build physical constraints, responsible service systems, or consequently, water supply systems, and water supply systems, and thus, water supply systems and devices maintenance of resources for the population in the urban fabric. This study has as its object the city of Monteiro, located in the interior of Paraíba, which is incorporated in the Brazilian semiarid region. Monteiro-PB was included in the São Francisco River National Plan with the Northeast Setent PISF Basins, a water transmission end of the São Francisco River, directed to the East axis through integrator integration and distribution through to the up to the basin hydrographic system of the Paraíba River. Even being one of the cities directly benefited by the PISF, the city of Monteiro faces a water supply service with high intermittence. Through the research, we sought to identify which factors cause the constant intermittence and, in parallel, to analyze the preservation and water-saving mechanisms that can help minimize this problem. Thus, they were determined by choice of saving devices considering the socioeconomic reality of the same Monteenses. Finally, this work proposes to spread an individual initiative to the residents of the neighborhoods that suffer from an intermittent water supply in Monteiro-PB through water saving and its benefits. It also presents chapters on Water and the City, Intermittent Water, Saving Mechanisms and Environmental Education via Social Networks. The final product of this work consists of a booklet where the target is the residents of these neighborhoods. This study stimulates individual initiative by carrying out a general application of the protection mechanisms and the rainwater harvesting device since it will minimize the impacts of the intermittence of the network supply and promote environmental sustainability by reducing waste and saving the network.