ANALYSIS OF WATER QUALITY INDICATORS IN RURAL AREA OF APÉU RIVER MICROBASIN, PARÁ
Water quality, surface water, groundwater, agriculture, irrigation, Castanhal-PA
Water is an unlimited natural resource, endowed with economic value, proposed by the integrated management of water resources and that, in a situation of scarcity, the priority is the watering of animals, fundamentals provided for by environmental legislation. In this context, the concern with the conservation of the quality of this resource increased, as well as the search for improvements and incentives that would minimize the negative environmental impacts. Therefore, this work proposes to monitor the use of surface and underground water used in agricultural activity, on the other hand, to propose a water quality index (WQI) for this purpose in a rural area of the municipality of Castanhal, Northeast of Pará State. of water for analysis of physical-chemical parameters were from September/2018 to August/2019, georeferenced, with on-site determination of qualitative parameters, as well as preserved samples and sent for analysis in the laboratory of Instituto Evandro Chagas. Finally, the individual evaluation of the values obtained were compared with the guidelines based on CONAMA resolutions No. 357/2005 and No. 396/2008, which showed that the water collected had its parameters in accordance with the provisions of current legislation, in contrast it was defined that there are no restrictions on the use of this water in the irrigation activity, due to the methodology used on the sodium adsorption ratio, and finally the water classes presented according to the IWQI showed that groundwater presents excellent classification.