Service and precariousness of sanitary sewage in rural communities in the state of Goiás, Brazil

ABSTRACT The rate of attendance to sanitary sewage services is low in rural communities, representing precarious sanitation conditions with dumping rudimentary cesspools or the open. Knowledge fractions effluents generated and places where they are released important, since inadequate disposal generates public health problems negatively impacts environment. In this way, objective work was identify amounts effluent deficit communities state Goiás. study area included 97 from which data were collected regarding existence bathrooms, alternatives sites for domestic fractions, such as feces separated urine. results indicated an absence a bathroom 6.6% analyzed households, being 2.5 18.2% households settlements quilombolas, respectively, highlighting latter occurrence open stream 13.7%. There predominant use receive fecal water, while gray water kitchen sink washing tanks mainly disposed backyard, greatest communities. Thus, most studied there due lack service, release untreated into ditches/open air, service unsafe treated cesspools. Few alternative technologies found treatment effluents, ecological pit, biodigester Tapiocanga stone pit identified. It concluded that high, without cesspools, characterized observed 84.6% households.