Percepções e avaliações do consumo de água em escolas públicas da mesorregião geográfica Triângulo Mineiro/Alto Paranaíba (MG)

• Autor(a) principal: Melo, Nágela Aparecida
• Data de Publicação: 2014
• Outros Autores: Salla, Marcio Ricardo, Oliveira, Fernanda Ribeiro Garcia
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista Monografias Ambientais
• Texto Completo: http://periodicos.ufsm.br/remoa/article/view/14271
• topic: Water consumption in schools; Environmental education; Water rational use; Consumo de água em escolas; Educação ambiental; Uso racional de água

To promote environmental sustainability it is urgent, in all segments of society, the review of how water consumption is done and, especially, the adoption of practices and technologies to make better use of this resource and decreasing waste. In public school units is frequent the inappropriate use and also loss of water by conservation conditions of hydro-sanitary systems. The paper presented here is conducted to question about how water consumption is conducted in public schools in the region of Triangulo Mineiro. The aspects studied were separated by sector (bathroom, kitchen, indoor and outdoor area), which included the identification of water consumption, the practical procedures for cleaning and maintenance and the habits of users. Understanding the main aspects related is taken as main reference to proposition of guidelines in environmental education projects for the water rational use.