Sustentabilidade hídrica de populações abastecidas com cisternas de placas no semi-árido nordestino

Abstract

The use of cisterns‟ plates for capture and storage of rainwater to supply the rural population in the northeastern Brazil has been identified as a feasible solution to endure with the semi-arid climate that prevails in the region. The cisterns „plates, made of cement, emerged as an alternative to replace the traditional barrel truck program that has been used even though with an annual regularity to supply the rural populations in the semi-arid region. The security of the water supply of these populations by using the cisterns‟ plates is questioned in this study which demonstrates that this solution does not replace the barrel-truck program during the dry season neither eliminates the need to have a basket options of water‟s supply to serve the demand of the rural populations in the Brazilian‟s northeast.