Estudo da qualidade da água dos bebedouros do IFG – Câmpus Inhumas

Abstract

The use of water is essential for the permanence of every living being, especially with regard to human consumption, since poor water is capable of transporting large quantities of physicalchemical and / or biological contaminants, the consumption of which has caused many problems of health. Therefore, it is extremely important to know whether or not the quality of water intended for human consumption meets the requirements of the legislation. This study reports a research developed in the dependencies of IFG - Inhumas campus, which began in the second half of 2015 with the participation of two undergraduate students in Chemistry. This is a descriptive and exploratory research, whose objective is to analyze the quality of water offered to students, faculty and the entire scientific community, through comparative analyzes of the values found, for the analyzed parameters, with the potability standards already established in the Ordinance nº 2.914 / 2011. The collection points were the drinking fountains of the institution and the analyzed parameters were: pH, free residual chlorine, color, turbidity, fluorine content, total coliforms and thermotolerant (E. coli). The results showed that the physical-chemical parameters analyzed, meet the quality standards required by the legislation. On the other hand, the bacteriological analyzes showed nonconformities that compromise the water quality distributed in the camp drinking fountains.