bachelorThesis
Impacto da pandemia de Covid-19 no padrão de consumo de água no Rio Grande do Norte
Fecha
2022-07-19Registro en:
PAIVA, Letícia Medeiros Pessoa. Impacto da pandemia de Covid-19 no padrão de consumo de água no Rio Grande do Norte. 2022. 40f. Trabalho de Conclusão de Curso (Graduação em Engenharia Ambiental) - Centro de Tecnologia, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Natal, 2022.
Autor
Paiva, Letícia Medeiros Pessoa
Resumen
The good management of water resources is essential to ensure uninterrupted access to drinking
water. In exceptional situations, such as the Covid-19 pandemic declared by the WHO in 2020,
can overload the supply systems of a locality, this is because measures such as social isolation
and the adoption of new personal hygiene practices in order to reduce contagion. by the virus
can directly change the water consumption profile. In this context, the present study proposed
to carry out an analysis of the impact caused by the pandemic on the pattern of water
consumption in the Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Norte, in order to be used as a collection
of information, as well as a planning and management mechanism. of these systems, so that the
behavior of the sector in the face of the pandemic scenario is understood. To this end, analyzes
of the volume of water billed were carried out based on data provided by CAERN, the company
responsible for offering the service in 152 of the 167 municipalities in RN. It was observed that
the situation of water consumption in the period preceding the pandemic showed signs of
stability, without the existence of large fluctuations. As of 2020, however, significant changes
were observed regarding the volume billed in all consumption categories analyzed
(commercial, industrial, public and residential), as well as in the total consumption of the state,
which characterized a response by the sector to the restrictions adopted in the period.