Ocorrência de poluição do Rio Piranhas-Açu na região do Sertão Paraibano.

Abstract

This work has as its theme "Occurrences of pollution in Rio Piranhas-Açu in the backlands of Paraiba region" where the river cuts a part of the northeastern hinterlands as an oasis and home to new lives. Because it is a river that runs through the states of Paraiba and Rio Grande do Norte, the interference caused by humans present major difficulties for the survival of these lives. Therefore, this work aims at finding occurrences of pollution that tend to destroy the experience within this nursery because there are frequent signs of destruction margins of the Rio Piranhas-Açu such as burning, which desolam leaving fertile soil incapable of germinating plants constant region. The deforestation of riparian forests that detrimentally cluttering the growth of the same features that are fundamental to the experience of the river, the pollution that is destroying the tributaries in the face of evil use of residents who dump debris waste waters, sewage waste from homes with jorrandos the banks and, ultimately, agriculture disorderly favoring the silting up of the river and soil pesticide leaching, affecting the fauna and flora. As for the effects on macrobiotic of bacteria, fungi, algae and protozoa must be unmeasurable, because it is not apparently visible. Studies show the concern to combat this catastrophic movement, for this process of awareness of residents and service the