ANÁLISE DA PERCEPÇÃO DOS ALUNOS SOBRE A QUALIDADE DA ÁGUA DOS BEBEDOUROS EM ESCOLAS DO MUNICÍPIO DE CABEDELO -PB

Children and adolescents spend considerable time during the day in the school environment, and in these environments water availability usually occurs through drinking fountains. This work aimed to evaluate students' perceptions about water quality, cleaning and conservation of drinking fountains in a school environment. For the evaluation of the answers obtained through the questionnaires the categorization of the answers and codification of the data was done. Descriptive statistical analysis was applied to summarize the means and proportions of each variable and chi-square analysis to compare qualitative data. This investigation of student perceptions made it possible to identify that the drinking fountain is used with considerable frequency, despite negative perceptions regarding water quality and safety, as well as the cleaning and conservation of the equipment.