A importância das nascentes para mitigação da crise hídrica na zona rural do município de Mata Grande – Alagoas

Abstract

Currently, there is a growing concern in society with environmental issues and the availability of water resources. Even though Brazil is considered a water-rich country, cases of water shortages are common in some regions such as the Northeast, where there are very long periods of drought. The reasons for this scarcity are prolonged drought periods, poor management of this resource and activities resulting from human action that end up affecting it. The consequence of this affects primarily surface waters, as they are more vulnerable to impacts than those found at greater depths. In view of the above, this work aims to understand the importance of springs for the mitigation of the water crisis in the rural area of the municipality of Mata Grande-Alagoas. The methodology will be directed to the bibliographical research, followed by a documentary research through a survey of the springs of the municipality of Mata Grande carried out by the Renascer Project together with the municipality of the municipality and then a field research carried out in loco applied to five owners of lands where there are springs and five landowners where there are none, where materials were collected for analysis and discussion of the results of the study in question. were used as methodological instruments through a questionnaire with open questions about springs in rural areas and their benefits where they exist and the difficulties of lack of water in locations where they do not exist. The result points to the need for the municipality of Mata Grande to develop a project that can recover the abandoned springs and seek to find other forms of water supply, through the implementation of artesian wells that will benefit the population that suffers from the water crisis.