Tecnologias sociais para captação e armazenamento de água em comunidades na Amazônia

Abstract

Social technologies for capturing and storing water are an important strategy for times of great variation in the distribution and quality of water and for the water and food security of vulnerable communities. In some protected areas, communities are vulnerable, especially in relation to access to this resource. The objective of this work was to identify, through the review of scientific literature and technical documents, social technologies aimed at capturing and storing water in the Brazilian Amazon, and to elaborate and propose indicators to evaluate replicable technologies. 45 community experiences of access, collection and/or storage of water for human consumption were located and mapped in seven states of the Brazilian Amazon. Four indicators and 27 replicability indexes were formulated for social technologies in communities in the Amazon, based on the parameters of water availability; participatory methods; diffusion; and sustainability. The proposal for these indicators aims, in addition to understanding how social technologies can gain scale when reapplied at the community level in the Amazon region, since those that are implemented in communities in protected areas as a public policy result in a certain autonomy in access to Water.