Uso de indicador hídrico na Ilha de Cotijuba, município de Belém-PA

Application of the Rural Water Sustainability Index (RWSI) in Amazon rural communities, Pará, Brazil

“…The peculiarity of a group of experts (also identified in the literature as specialists, experts, participants, respondents, or panelists) considers that collective thinking is better than the opinion or conception of a single professional when it is properly organized (Santiago & Dias, 2012). In this study, the Delphi method was used to determine the weights of each component and subcomponent, and the scores of the RWSI indicators, as it has been used more frequently for the development of scenarios to increase the quality of scenarios and make them deeper (Brito et al, 2020;Progênio et al 2020;Crispim et al, 2021).…”

“…There are communities located in the Amazon that have difficulties accessing drinking water and supply, making it a problem in the region. The fact that the region is rich in water resources does not guarantee that water will meet the basic needs of its population (Monni et al, 2018;Brito et al, 2020).…”

“…According to Brito et al (2020), the lack of drinking water is more aggravating in geographically distant communities. In this context, it is essential to study and reflect on the use and access to water in the Amazon region, to include a concept of qualitative and economic scarcity given the panorama of the difficulty in accessing drinking water faced by the rural population and the islands.…”

“…Understanding the lack of availability (physical, infrastructure, or institutional), the qualitative and economic scarcity of water is necessary for the formulation of public policies at national, state, and local scales (Narzetti & Marques, 2021). In recent years, the commitment of several researchers to measure the sustainability of water in the Brazilian Amazon region has been observed (Rego et al, 2013;Brito et al, 2020;Rocha & Lima, 2020) through the development of instruments for assessment based on sustainability indicators.…”

“…Previous studies in the Amazon region of Brazil have used multi-criteria decision analysis (MCDA) techniques to assess water sustainability at different spatial scales, such as watershed (Rocha & Lima, 2020), city (Rego et al, 2013), and island (Brito et al, 2020). However, the studies cited did not integrate the MCDA and geographic information system (GIS) to analyze the water situation for a spatial scale of rural communities.…”