Educação ambiental na promoção do sistema Wetland construído de escoamento vertical no tratamento de esgoto: comparação entre as cidades de Belo Horizonte-Brasil e Maputo-Moçambique

Abstract

This study aimed to analyze the role of environmental education in the promotion of the Vertical Flow Constructed Wetland System for the treatment of domestic sewage in Infulene neighborhood based on the experience that CePTS-UFMG has, to implement the same system in the treatment of a portion of the sewage of the city of Belo Horizonte. For this work qualitative approach was adopted and observation, interview and various written works dealing with the subject under study as data collection tools. The interviews were administered to a total of 12 people including four researchers from the CePTS-UFMG, four residents and four managers of the Infulene ETE, which allowed the following conclusions: in Brazil, the CePTS-UFMG has several knowledge of the system while the Mozambique residents do not know the wetland system. Although only two managers of the Infulene sewage treatment station have the knowledge of the same system, all the four managers recognized the importance of environmental education in its dissemination which led us to validate the first hypothesis of this study that: environmental education has an important role in promoting Wetland Vertical Flow Constructed System for the treatment of domestic sewage.