Análise cronológica do impacto da Covid-19 no consumo de água do Instituto Federal de Goiás Campus Anápolis e seus usuários

Abstract

Drinking water is one of the most valuable natural resources for living beings, having access to this resource is essential for terrestrial life and ecosystem maintenance. In Brazil, currently most of the consumption of fresh drinking water goes to the irrigation process, while the other parts are divided between human consumption, industry, animal use, thermoelectric plants, mining and rural human use. In situations such as the pandemic of the new coronavirus Sars-CoV-2 declared by the World Health Organization (WHO) in 2020, where measures such as social isolation and consequently increased personal hygiene practices were adopted in order to reduce contagion by virus, one can notice changes directly linked to the water consumption profile. Therefore, this work aims to evaluate the water consumption of students and employees of higher education, technical and EJA courses at the Federal Institute of Goiás campus Anápolis, between the periods prior to the pandemic and during the quarantine. To achieve this objective, the following steps were taken: creation and application of an electronic questionnaire, bibliographical survey to collect information on the effects of the pandemic on water consumption, simple qualitative and quantitative analysis using average and median through excel to organize and tabulate the collected information. Through this research, it was found that 68% of the changes in the water consumption habits of the public studied occurred through users who had some contact with covid-19, another important fact is that 40% of the public who answered the questionnaire declared having increased the frequency of cleaning dishes during the quarantine period. In addition to these results, the research demonstrates that there were changes in the form of personal hygiene, especially hand cleaning, changing water consumption between periods.