A segregação socioespacial e o acesso à água : um estudo em duas comunidades urbanas em Jaboatão dos Guararapes - PE

Abstract

The present research had the aim to analyse of that way the socio-spatial segregation reflects in the access to drinking waters in two communities of urban areas in the city of Jaboatão of the Guararapes – PE. Some urban phenomena, the example of frequent popular protests signals in the direction of that exist inequalities in the access to the drinking waters services in the Region. The development of the cities caused the demarcation of the urban space of form that some social groups had been setting in areas where they meet greater difficulty in the access to the collective equipment and services, amongst such of water supply. Thus, an analysis of the precarious access to drinking waters and the form was accomplished as this affects the daily of the people, in general, subject that they live in poverty situation. A permanent tension is formed dialectic with the necessity of access to the resource and the cost to be paid for this. For the accomplishment of this study the theoretical references are alternated mainly enter the studies of authors as: Jean Lojkine (1979, 1997), Milton Santos (2004), Esteban Castro (2016), Guy Caubet (2009), amongst whom they contribute for the subject in question. The construction of this work was composed for three stages: documentary research, for the data-collecting on the water supply in the RMR, as well as concerning legislations to the uses and water supply; Collection of field, composed of interviews with local residents of the two searched communities; Processing of data acquired in the collection of field. The present research has a qualitative approach with quantitative input, considered as exploratory. The results point that many individuals, above all the ones that inhabit in marked areas for the socio-spatial segregation, if want can count on one of the services most basic it human being: the access to the regular water of form. Although the expansion of the access to the water in Brazil in recent years, this did not come accompanied of the quality of the services, much less arrived at all, not materialize the universalization of the access in the country. One expects that this work can contribute to a reflection concerning the water supply in the urban communities of the RMR, resulting in discussions and action in the improvement of the services of water supply, prioritizing the universal access to drinking waters of safe form and regular, above all, in the life of the people that they live in poverty condition, that are affected by the problem in question.