Educação ambiental como ferramenta de consciencialização para o tratamento de esgotos sanitários: experiência de tratamento de esgotos sanitários em sistema wetlands construído de fluxo vertical na estação de tratamento de águas residuais de infulene

Abstract

The study focuses on Environmental Education and aims to analyze the contribution of environmental education as a tool to sensitize Infulene farmers to sewage treatment during their agricultural activities. According to reports from the populations, farmers have been using the waters of the Infulene Valley without treating them, although there is a treatment system for this liquid. The research was carried out in the city of Maputo with farmers who grow vegetables in the Valley. Data were collected through interviews with 10 peasants and a lecture focused on social awareness. The results raised by the interview show that farmers do not have information about water quality and the consequences resulting from this irrigation. And this stems from the lack of monitoring by environmental educators, so much so that, after the lecture, they assumed new attitudes in relation to the liquid they have been using for irrigation.