PERSPECTIVES AND MANAGEMENT MODEL EVALUATION SHARED WATER SUPPLY IN RURAL AREA IN THE STATE OF PERNAMBUCO
Management model; sustainability; rural sanitation.
The relentless search for the universalization of water supply services in Brazil is a long-standing challenge. For water resource managers, as well as public policy makers, ensuring a quality water supply in rural areas is a recurring challenge, especially due to the spatial distribution of diffuse communities. Another challenge is to promote the sustainability of these systems. In this scenario, this work aimed to present the water demand of the rural population, to propose hierarchy criteria for investments in the search for universal services, including suggesting the concept of Rural
Concentration Index (ICR). Also to establish perspectives of the first SISAR in Pernambuco through SWOT analysis and, especially, to evaluate a model of shared management of water supply system in the rural area of the semi-arid region of Brazil, State of Pernambuco. The pilot project was evaluated in the Santo Antônio II community, in the municipality of Afogados da Ingazeira, and 24 parameters were
evaluated for institutional performance, within the scope of operational, commercial and financial efficiency, of which only 2 were classified as bad, 62.5% had an excellent classification and 29.2% fair. In conclusion, the model presented a good institutional performance, and adequate operational, commercial and financial efficiency. In this way, the shared management model is recommended for replication, as it should also be strengthened in favor of the search for the universalization and sustainability of the water supply service in rural areas in Pernambuco.