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As representações do rio Tibagi, Paraná - Brasil, e o abastecimento de água potável na cidade de Londrina (1970-1990)

2015; Volume: 5; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.5935/2237-2717.20150002

2237-2717

Gilmar Arruda, Eliane Aparecida Biasetto,

Water Governance and Infrastructure

The great population expanse in the 1970 decade has intensified urban social problems in the city of Londrina (Paraná, Brazil) such as the lack of potable water.Two proposals could solve the matter: first, to collect water from the Guarani Aquifer, named Botucatu at the time; on the other hand, water could be collected from the Tibagi River.The river was chosen as supply between the early 1970's and the middle 1980's, which emerged and propagated the representation of pollution on the Tibagi River.In this article, we investigate the awakening, circulation, features, and social agents making use of this representation in their plans of action.