City in Ceará in emergency drought makes up for raffle bingo pit
Event also gave the bike, but it was a chance to get water that attracted the interest of the participants.
Pentecost (EC) is in an emergency due to the drought that has lasted three years. Farmers lost almost the entire crop of the cattle died and the population of the rural area are without drinkable water. To try to ease the situation, a local authority in September organized a bingo that has drawn the drilling of a deep well between 2,200 buyers a card from $ 10.
Won the housewife Maria do Socorro Costa, 41, a farmer and Egilázio Freitas Silva, 52, who completed all your card numbers. Well, of course, can not be divided. The solution was to sell it to a third bidder, the mechanic and farmer José Dalvani Keys, 44, who came to attend the three bingo cards. After purchase, it irrigates a small coconut plantation in the rural municipality. "The acquisition was worth it because now my family has water to drink, to use on food and other household utilities," he explains. He paid $ 4000 for the prize (the drilling and pump), but had to invest over US $ 12 000 because the first excavation found no water.
A housewife who originally won the bingo live in the urban area, yet with access to ponds in the region. This was the reason that led her to sell well. "I won, but analyzing well, did not like having a pit here in my house. The trouble with water is great, but it is not hopeless," he says.
Pump and well drilling saved the banana production of farmer José Dalvani (Photo: Sherry Gioras / G1)
Pump and well drilling saved production
Banana farmer José Dalvani
(Photo: Sherry Gioras / G1)
But to the farmer from the countryside the situation is different. "Everything was dry. Panorama pitiful. My little property was practically no water to irrigate a small coconut plantation that I have. It's little, but at the end of the month gives a damn help. Besides the consumer, "he says. The region is the second largest producer of coconut in Brazil and the product is compromised of low water weir Pentecost.
A month after the installation of the well on your property landscape has changed and he reaps the fruits of investment. "Everything has changed. People say I've done stupid to invest US $ 12 000 in the deep pit to dig, but it was not. I bought the machine for £ 3000 and over £ 9000 could drill the well. Now I have irrigated land and my family have water to drink, "he says.
Before installation, it was forced to buy bottled water at high prices because the available water in the city is unfit for consumption. "Water from the dam and pipa car no longer fits, it is dirty. When we put it to boil a foam appears. Horrible."
The president of the Association of Users of Irrigation District of Irrigated Curu Pentecost (Audipecupe), Francisco Claudio Ferreira de Sousa, was one of the creators of bingo. "What people are looking at the moment? The need is a deep well. So we had this idea. It's something that will reach a larger audience possible. And people's participation was great." Besides the well was placed at premium the same bingo a bike, but not a lot of demand. "People always ask the pit. Almost nobody inquired by bike. They were interested in having something even was offering them water. "




















