INSTALAÇÕES PREDIAIS HIDRÁULICAS E SANITÁRIAS EM ESCOLAS PÚBLICAS: PATOLOGIAS E SATISFAÇÃO DOS USUÁRIOS Water supply and drainage facilities in public schools: pathology and users' satisfaction

This study aims to survey the condition of water supply and drainage facilities of public schools in the northern regional city of Cuiaba, Mato Grosso - Brazil. For this, it was made a plumbing system diagnosis of facilities by visual inspection and photographic records data and a questionnaire to the users of the buildings. In the results, the aspects of greatest dissatisfaction are related to pathological manifestations of easy intervention, such as poor hygiene, bad smell, leaks, clogs, wrong positioning of troughs and puddling of water. In this context, it is recommended that the government keep a maintenance program of the schools in order to prevent or lessen these manifestations. Thus would be avoided more expenses with greater problems through carelessness and especially the health and good condition of the educational environment of students would be preserved. The major contribution of this work is to show the situation of building facilities of public schools and the identification that the good condition of public schools depend on care arising from its projection to the end user, with care from the government, with financial resources that are appropriate and sufficient to the needs of the correct functioning of educational activities in