WATER INJUSTICE AND SOCIAL VULNERABILITY: THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC WITHIN THE MOST VULNERABLE COMMUNITIES - DIGNITY IN VERTIGO

Abstract

The scope of the present is based on analyzing the interrelationship between water injustice and social vulnerability in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic. As it happens, the pandemic, caused by the coronavirus, was responsible for promoting a rethinking of the entire world context, as it called into question the established models and affected humanity as a whole. In the Brazilian context, the pandemic did not only produce consequences in the health sphere, with the need to implement a more complex planning focused on Brazilian peculiarities. In addition, the pandemic also exposed the context of Brazilian inequality, aggravating the commitment of fundamental rights, especially with regard to the most vulnerable strata of society. In this line of exposure, the water injustice, by establishing the commitment to access to drinking water as a consequence of Brazilian inequality, showed its most severe face, placing a vulnerable portion of the Brazilian population without the minimum element of prevention to the coronavirus. The methodology used in the construction of the present was based on the use of historiographical and deductive methods. As research techniques, due to the framing of qualitative research, literature review techniques were used, under a systematic format, and documentary research.