Abstract
In the Grande and Murutucu islands, county of Belém, Pará state, lack of drinking water is the major challenge to improve the quality of life of river bank inhabitants, because they use the rivers as main source for water consumption without any treatment. This was a key fact for caring out studies that lead to the deployment and implementation in 2011, of two Rain Water Utilization Systems (RWUS), one in each island previously mentioned. Therefore, this study aimed to evaluate the sustainability of these supply technologies, adapting the Barometer of Sustainability tool, through the definition of 5 dimensions and their respective topics and indicators, allowing to identify that the RWUS
Highlights
Social and environmental problems resulting from socioeconomic integration between the world societies are not mitigated
This is due to the fact that human society, as a complex system, must understand the dynamics of this system in order to achieve sustainable development, by adopting appropriate criteria to monitor the changes brought about by intervention processes in the environment, and to minimize harmful practices (MENDES et al, 2012; TAYRA; RIBEIRO, 2006; FENZL; MACHADO, 2009)
The importance of water management, as well as, the need to avoid a merely discursive sustainable development debate, were decisive factors for conducting research in rural and peri-urban areas of the Amazonian cities, for example, the Grande and Murutucu islands, located 12,2 Km and 9,29 km south of Belém (State of Pará), namely, which are the focus of this research
Summary
Social and environmental problems resulting from socioeconomic integration between the world societies are not mitigated. Since 2008, the Research Group of Rainwater Utilization, Sanitation and Environment in the Amazon (GPAC-Amazon, at Federal University of Pará), has been targeting the use of rainwater utilization as main strategy for the region's water resources management, by understanding the importance of the rational use of natural resources and the need to preserve them. This concept led to the development and implementation, in 2011, of two Rainwater Harvesting Systems (SAAC), one on each in aforementioned islands
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