Santos, Juliana dos; http://lattes.cnpq.br/8746762751130139Adriana Costa Ferreira
Resumo:
The supply of quality fresh water has become the most important natural resource in
this decade. Agricultural expansion and the large-scale food production model have
made Brazil one of the world's biggest consumers of pesticides and also one of the
countries that tolerates the presence of these substances in water the most, without
there being an efficient dissemination system on the subject. In this context,
Information and Communication Technologies can be an ally in scientific
dissemination. Apps for smartphones are a method that has not yet been explored in
the field of water resources, especially those aimed at guaranteeing access to
information on the quality of drinking water. In this sense, the aim of this work was to
develop a mobile application for Android, as a Minimum Viable Product (MVP), with
data on the parameters of pesticides in drinking water offered by Brazilian Water
Supply Networks and made available by the National Program for Surveillance of
Water Quality for Human Consumption (VIGIAGUA). The app also has five other
functions: Consultation of Legislation on Pesticides, Rapid River Assessment Protocol
(PAR), Contacts for Toxicological Assistance Centers and Contact Centers for the
Return of Used Pesticide Packaging. The study was divided into two parts: the first
was a survey of the literature on pesticides in drinking water and the second was the
development of the application using the free, open-access software Mit App Inventor.
The results presented demonstrate the viability of the App developed as an aid to
scientific dissemination, especially in terms of popularizing access to data on water
monitoring from the Information System for the Surveillance of Water Quality for
Human Consumption (SISAGUA), as well as the chance to identify some of
VIGIAGUA's shortcomings, thus being able to make recommendations for
improvements to it, while delivering a new technological tool to society, with the
prospect that this Application can be improved in new studies.
