Análise de riscos em sistemas de abastecimento de água sob a perspectiva do plano de segurança da água. Estudo de caso: região metropolitana de Fortaleza no Estado do Ceará

Abstract

The third edition of the Guidelines for Drinking Water Quality of the World Health Organization - WHO brought a new vision and concern for health, whose purpose is the guarantee of water quality as a tool for public health protection. For this, the Water Safety Plan (PSA) was proposed as a tool to ensure the quality of water from a water supply system from a comprehensive planning risk assessment and management, involving all stages of system supply, from catchment to distribution to final consumers. The plan involves some key measures to ensure the water quality evaluation system for water supply, operational monitoring and its effective administration thereof. The development plan also covers some essential steps, and among them include the assessment of risk factors and risk characterization. The methods used in the PSA are based on many of the principles and concepts applied in other systems of risk management, as the system of multiple barriers and Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point (HACCP). This paper presents a methodology using fuzzy logic-based tools and Multicriteria Analysis methodologies in order to assist in decision making. As a case study, we selected the Water Supply Systems (WSS) that serve 13 of the 15 municipalities of the Metropolitan Region of Fortaleza, in Ceará. Using the methodology can be concluded that systems with a level of relevance with a Low Risk scale are more prevalent, in general, outside the specific case of only one, who took higher level of relevance in the Moderate Risk scale. Besides indicating the relevance of the levels of risk of each WSS, the methodology also allowed us to classify them according to the scale of risk. On a scale of risk and the relative level, the municipalities could be sorted, where the lowest risk was evident to Maracanaú and the last, to Cascavel. Furthermore, the methodology proved to be an alternative to providing subsidies for risk assessment and decision making in line with the guidelines of the Water Safety Plans.