THREATS TO THE HUMAN DIMENSION OF WATER SECURITY IN THE BORDER CITY OF OIAPOQUE - AP / EAST AMAZON

Abstract

Water security, despite implying challenges in answering how, for whom and under what circumstances access to water is threatened, has become an important concept in understanding the degree of threat to which a population is subjected with respect to this resource. Despite the diferent approaches, from a human point of view, there is a consensus that, among other fundamental elements, water security is achieved when there is access to drinking water in sufficient quantity and quality, to satisfy basic human needs. Supported by this theme, the objective of this article is to introduce a brief discussion, based on the specialized literature on the topic of water security and on data on water supply and sewage in the border city of Oiapoque, in the extreme north of the state of Amapá with French Guiana, from data made available by the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics - IBGE and the National Sanitation Information System - SNIS - on the conditions of water supply and basic sanitation in that territory. As a preliminary result, we found that water supply conditions, below desirable quality, compromise safe access to water, threatening the human dimension of Water Security.