LEVANTAMENTO SOBRE O USO DAS TECNOLOGIAS SOCIAIS HÍDRICAS EXISTENTES NO ASSENTAMENTO CORREDOR, REMÍGIO – PB

Abstract

In the Brazilian semi-arid, access to potable water has always been a survival problem. The water sources dry in the dry season, due to the intense evaporation, caused by high insolation and dry and fast winds. Many reservoirs that resist become political fiefdoms, and water, not always drinkable, becomes the bargaining chip in many communities, especially low-income communities. Social water technologies that present themselves as strategic, democratic, simple, cheap and replicable have contributed much to modify this scenario. In the Projects of Settlements of Agrarian Reform of the Paraíba Semi-Arid, the reality is no different what obliges to use of different arrangements with the public powers and, mainly, with the social movements and organizations like the Articulation of the Semi-Arid-ASA. The research aimed to make a survey about the water social technologies existing in the Settlement Corredor, Remígio - PB and what dynamics exist around them. According to the results obtained the majority of the settlers possess at least two types of technologies in at least three arrangements: Plank cistern and Plank Cistern; Plumbing cistern and Flushing cistern and Plumbing cistern and Underground Dam which meet the demand for water for a period of six to twelve months notably for drinking, cooking and personal hygiene.