Stephy Publishers | Sanitary Sewer’s Infrastructure in the Brazilian Semiarid Areas and its Consequences for People’s Health: The Case of the City of Santo Estevão-BA
Journal of Environmental Science and Research - (JESR) | Stephy Publishers Abstract: This research aims to Identify the areas with higher shortcoming in distribution of sanitation’s services, especially those related to the sanitary sewer and the main consequences to people’s health. The study’s field bounded three neighborhoods from Santo Estevão city (Alto do Porrão, Mutirão and Pau de Vela). For data collection, geoprocessing was necessary through the Global Positioning System (GPS), Cartography and Geographical Information System in order to demarcate the points relating to the water’s spatial distribution. Therefore, the areas with a significant frequency of diseases due to the lack of sanitary sewer were described in order to build thematic maps. The methodological procedure used was the case report because of its enabling nature to investigate the phenomenon here described, and also considering that city’s population was directly involved with the research. For data collec...