Reflections of access and consumption of drinking water in the daily life of women in poverty situation: a study in urban communities of the city of Jaboatão of the Guararapes/PE

Abstract

Historically, the women are the ones that more suffer with the lack of access to drinking water. Domestic activities are almost always attributed to them, including supply of water. The sexual division of labor determines tasks of men and women, also within the home. This article presents part of the research of Dissertation of Master's degree, and has as objective to describe of that it forms the lack of access to safe drinking water reflects in the daily life of the women in poverty situation. The construction of this work had a qualitative approach, exploratory, composed by: documentary research, field collection, and data processing. The research was carried out in communities of the urban area of the municipality of Jaboatão of the Guararapes/PE. The results indicate that many women have a daily life determined for the precarious of access and consumption of water. Provision of infrastructure for an adequate water supply would potentially reduce women’s overtime, in addition to the time spent on household chores, they need to devote time to water provision, thus increasing the total workload.