EVALUATION OF THE POTENTIAL OF CONTAMINATION OF WATER RESOURCES BY PESTICID WASTE IN THE ALTO JURUENA / MT BASIN, BRAZIL
active ingredient, environmental risk, human health.
Water resources are one of the main factors for the maintenance of life on earth, in addition to being a means of carrying out numerous social and economic activities, due to this great importance there is also a great concern on the part of society about the pollution of water resources arising from production agricultural scale, especially in commodities. The use of pesticides is closely linked to the pace of production, that is, the more areas that are suitable for agriculture, the greater the use of these agricultural inputs, which in turn can cause major impacts on water resources and their ecosystems and on the soil microbiota. Given this environmental concern, this work is justified by the acquisition of information and identification of the active ingredients present in agrochemicals used in the main crops in the municipalities in the drainage area of the Alto Juruena hydrographic basin, in order to understand the risks that these substances represent in the process of pollution of the surface water by pesticide, through the survey of quantitative and qualitative data, especially from government agencies and regulatory agencies, data tabulation and application of a specific algorithm that indicates the risk of contamination of ground and surface water in the study area by the solubility of the pesticide in water, for its half-life in the soil and its infiltration power in the soil. It was observed that in the region there is a high rate of use of pesticides with high power of environmental contamination as well as toxic to human health, such as the herbicide Paraquate, which was banned for sale in Brazil in 2020.