Aprendendo com a escassez: alternativas de uso da água em Eirunepé/AM

Abstract

The city of Eirunepé (AM) presents problems regarding the distribution of water offered by the Companhia de Saneamento do Amazonas - COSAMA. Population growth coupled with meager investments in expanding the supply chain forces the population to seek alternative solutions in the fight against the scarcity of this good that is essential for human survival. In this sense, it was sought to understand, from the perception of IFAM / Campus Eirunepé students, how the water supply offered by COSAMA occurs, what actions are adopted by their families when this good is not offered by the State and in what form the power and the public act to guarantee the quality of water for the population. The research seeks to answer the question about the alternatives of water use used by the population of Eirunepé. Adjusted to the dialectic theory of systemic complexity, a case study was carried out using the environmental perception of eighteen students regularly enrolled in the IFAM / Eirunepé Campus distributed equally in the six districts of the city: Our Lady of Fátima, São José, Aparecida, Centro, Perpétuo Socorro and Santo Antônio. For the collection of data a plan was adopted that consists of: Bibliographic Research, Documentary Research and Field Research. The techniques for obtaining data in the Field Survey were composed of: interviews, debates, workshops, text development and field diary. In this way, the chapters will discuss the specific objectives of the work, in order to meet the general objective of creating an informative and educational booklet describing students water supply alternatives. Each chapter will try to argue the following: Chapter I - Contextualization of the Study Area. Chapter II - Water Supply Policies in Eirunepé. Chapter III - Alternative means of water use. Chapter IV - Environmental Perception. Chapter V - Didactic / Pedagogical Material (Product). The study showed how families act in obtaining water when not offered by the public power and what transformations occur in the environment when they seek to obtain this good. They seek to adapt to the realities that surround them and therefore develop strategies of survival by changing the environment in which they are inserted. This change caused by population growth has resulted in increased underground pollution, given the number of contaminated wells in the city. This problem, for the most part, was not known to the families interviewed. Finally, a Pedagogical Guide was elaborated with the purpose of contributing to the teaching pedagogical practice, helping and enriching the awakening of the student's environmental perception about the strategies and of water use implemented by the families in an attempt to solve possible problems of supply of this good by part of the public power.