Estratégias de educação ambiental para promoção do manejo sustentável dos sistemas de captação de água de chuva em comunidades rurais do Cariri-PB

Abstract

The need of storing water during the drought period, mainly in the semiarid region, has encouraged the development of simple alternatives within low cost of storing water of good quality for the human supplies. The system of storing the rainwater is an advanced technology that requires proper skills. Not following sanitaria instructions compromise the water quality that implicates in some waterborne diseases responsible for the high levels of morbidity and mortality. The Environmental education is an important tool of transforming the environmental perception that should be done in a way that allows a continuous and novelty management. The present research had as a principal goal to apply different strategies in Environmental Education, gathering teachers, students and members of rural communities, Environmental Monitoring Agents, Community Health Agents from the town of São João do Carriri, PB in order to promote the sustainable management of the systems of storing rainwater in tanks. It was a participant research that took place from May 2007 to February 2009. Among the results were outlined and implemented strategies, such as identification of community leaders, youth training, adolescents and adults, identification of environmental perception and design of systems for capturing rainwater, achieving both social and environmental diagnosis, inclusion of the theme water school from the continuing education of teachers; participatory planning meetings, running courses, workshops and seminars, development projects from the theme system to capture rainwater, involvement of municipal public administration and execution of the process of sensitization a continuous, participatory and fun. After the implementation of the strategies is the need of continuity of work for Environmental Education, as the number of meetings was not enough for the expected changes. The actors involved have to hold knowledge about the systems capture and store rain water, especially in relation to health bars, but no, the application of knowledge built into everyday actions.