Avaliação da qualidade da água do abastecimento público do município de Juazeiro do Norte, CE

Abstract

Water is fundamental to life maintenance, being your distribution and quality control of great importance to the population, however, a part of the population do not have access to water with adequate quality. The present work has as objective evaluate theadequacy of the Water and Sewage Company of Ceará State (CAGECE) to the physicochemical and microbiological quality standards for public water supply in the municipality of Juazeiro do Norte, CE. Samples were collected in the years 2014 and 2015 by CAGECE and the monitoring was performed with 53 monthly samples, divided into two collections. It was done analyses of turbidity,free residual chlorine, total coliforms and Escherichia coli. The results of study show a worrisome situation about the quality of distributed water by the above-mentioned organ, mainly the results of microbiologic analysis. It shows the necessity of intensification in the monitoring and supervision of the conditions of water distribution in the city of Juazeiro do Norte, CE.