The objective of this research was to suggest the proposed classification of bodies of water to the basin of the stream Jacutinga, city of Ivorá-RS, based in its water usage and current status of water quality. The stream ...

Evaluation of quality and quantity of water contributes to the strategic decisionmaking policies and techniques to ensure the potential use of this resource for agriculture, industry, animal watering and for human consumption. ...

Concern over water quality in Brazil is being hotly debated currently. In order to obtain information about the water quality at the national level, it was created the National Program for Assessment of Water Quality (PNQA). ...

The unplanned development of urban communities strongly contributes to degradation of water resources, jeopardazing the quality of the water and the integrity of aquatic environments. The objetive of the present study was ...

Water is the main factor for the development and growth of communities, especially the rural ones. The objectives of this study were to evaluate the water quality and to determine the influence of natural and anthropogenic ...

Green roofs have increasingly become an integral part of urban environments, mainly due to their aesthetic benefits, thermal comfort and efficiency in controlling excess runoff. However, the effects of this emerging ...

For many centuries, mankind has considered fresh water as inextinguishable feature, without evaluating the environmental consequences related to quantity and quality. The current form of appropriation of water to meet ...

In rural areas, including rural schools, the water intended for human consumption may not have quality, due to problems in their capture and storage, leaving the rural population in the mercy of contamination and diseases ...

This work was developed with the main objective to analyze the water quality in watersheds with different uses and land use in the municipality of Itaara - RS . The municipality characteristics of rural and urban use, and ...

This work aimed at to study the main current environmental problems of the use of the earth, and their reflexes in the quality of the water, as well as the attitude of the population local front to the environmental ...