Abastecimento de água para consumo humano na área urbana de São Luís: onde está a qualidade?

• Ano de defesa: 2008
• Autor(a) principal: Mendes, Djenane Coimbra Teixeira
• Orientador(a): MOCHEL, Flávia Rebelo
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Federal do Maranhão
• Programa de Pós-Graduação: PROGRAMA DE PÓS-GRADUAÇÃO EM SAÚDE E AMBIENTE/CCBS
• Departamento: DEPARTAMENTO DE SAÚDE PÚBLICA/CCBS
• País: Brasil
• Palavras-chave em Português: Água de Consumo Humano; Abastecimento Público de Água; Qualidade Ambiental; Água
• Palavras-chave em Inglês: Water for Human Consumption; Water Supplied Public; Environmental Quality; Water
• Área do conhecimento CNPq: Qualidade do Ar, das Águas e do Solo
• Link de acesso: http://tedebc.ufma.br:8080/jspui/handle/tede/1624

The public supplying in terms of amount and quality has been a constant concern of the humanity, due to scarcity of the water and deterioration of the sources for the launching of effluent and residues, becoming an important factor in the transmission of diseases. During the drinking waters distribution, the quality of this can suffer a series from alterations, then after the exit of the treatment, that can compromise the standards of potabilidade demanded by law nº 518/04, when this arrives at the tap of the user and thus, if differentiating of the quality of the water that leaves the treatment station. In this study, it was looked to evaluate the quality of the water for human consumption of the urban area of São Luis, supplied for the systems of supplying, being recommended measured that they support the public administration of the water resources, of the environment and action of health, education and social mobilization aiming at the access to the water of healthful quality for the population. They had been collected and analyzed water samples of human consumption in the net of distribution in the 195 quarters of the urban area of São Luis, as well as the survey and mapping of the notifications of water-borne diseases propagation: diarrhea and hepatitis, in 07 quarters of the urban area, with bigger occurrence of cases, where it was evaluated correlation with the results of the water samples is of the standards in these quarters and the pluviometric precipitation as increase of incidence of cases. The significance was made through statistical test, which resulted in the relation of increase of the cases of diarrhea in the quarters with bigger occurrence in the rainy and insignificant period for hepatitis cases, illness this that it suggests to have relation with the lack of basic sanitation that if aggravates with the lack of information of the forms of infects. It was carried through still, inspection in the 04 systems of water supply of São Luis, to evaluate the conditions of the installations and process of treatment and distribution of the consumed water. The gotten results of the water samples in accordance with meet in disagreement with law nº 518/04, that it deals with the standards of potabilidade, as well as innumerable conformity found during the inspections in the systems, not pointing its consequences and which had recommendations with respect to corrective measures, the current law and the good norms of practical in the water supply. It was concluded that with the current treatment of the water supplied for the systems, the population of São Luis is displayed to the risk to contract illnesses and other aggravation to the health, having to be taken measured possible to minimize or to solve the problematic one of the distribution of the water, for however displayed.