A expansão urbana da cidade de Serrinha - Bahia e suas repercussões sobre os recursos hídricos

Abstract

This paper aims to analyze the urban sprawl of Serrinha and its impact on local water resources. From information acquired based on local history and analysis of time series of remote sensing images that allow modeling the evolution of the town. The urbanization process occurs in time and space, and Serrinha the period 1950-1960 follows the significant urban growth that has occurred in the cities of underdeveloped countries, as has already been punctuated by several authors, corroborating a series of environmental problems, including pollution of water resources, a product of significant population growth as a consequence, makes the release of liquid effluents on natural surfaces. Understanding how this process occurs in urban occupation is necessary support to be given guidelines that will assist the government to enable a more efficient planning and may well influence the spatial organization strategies to help alleviate the effects of sprawl.