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Viabilidade e sustentabilidade económica na implementação de um sistema de dessalinização no sector agrícola em Portugal: estudo de caso na Herdade do Pinheiro, SA.
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A água é essencial ao planeta e o maior condutor para alcançar o desenvolvimento
sustentável, uma vez que está interligada com o desenvolvimento socioeconómico, com
a produção de alimentos e energia e ainda com a sobrevivência, tanto de ecossistemas
como da espécie humana.
A procura pela água, seja proveniente do aumento da população ou do melhoramento
das condições de vida, em conjunto com as alterações climáticas que provocam
escassez ou contaminação deste recurso originam stress hídrico que, por conseguinte,
impossibilita o acesso ou o consumo do mesmo. Todos nós temos a nossa quota de
responsabilidade para minimizar este problema, que será cada vez maior de ano para
ano, e cabe-nos fazer um uso racional deste recurso. No que concerne ao Governo e
às organizações, estes têm uma responsabilidade acrescida para com a sociedade e
para com o ambiente em que estão inseridos. É imperativo que as organizações
trabalhem no sentido de minimizar o impacto que a escassez de água apresenta no
nosso quotidiano e nos seus compromissos económicos, sociais e ambientais.
Sendo a Herdade do Pinheiro, S.A. uma empresa agrícola em que a sua atividade
depende em grande escala da água como matéria-prima e considerando a sua posição
geográfica e o fácil acesso ao rio Sado, o autor desenvolve um projeto de investimento
com o objetivo geral de perceber se existe sustentabilidade e viabilidade económica na
implementação de um sistema de dessalinização por osmose inversa numa empresa
do sector agrícola em Portugal.
Para alcançar o objetivo geral, o projeto de investimento tem por base um orçamento
que evidência os custos, os benefícios e os inconvenientes do mesmo e, que juntamente
com o arquivo disponibilizado pela Herdade do Pinheiro, S.A. aponta para um trabalho
com abordagem qualitativa.
Pretende-se saber se há ou não viabilidade económica favorável à implementação do
mesmo, mas para além de ser extramente importante a viabilidade económica deste
projeto, é tão ou mais importante (dadas as condições de secas severas) as
organizações estarem capacitadas para a produção de matéria-prima necessária para
alcançar alguma independência dos recursos naturais disponibilizados.
Water is essential to the planet and is the biggest driver to reach sustainable development, once it is connected with socio-economic development, with food and energy production and the survival of ecosystems and the human kind. The demand for water, whether from population growth or the improvement of life quality, together with the climate changes, which cause scarcity or contamination of this resource and originates hydric stress that makes it impossible to access or its consumption. We all have the responsibility to minimize this problem, which is going to increase year by year and it is up to us to make a rational use of this resource. As for the government and organizations, they have a bigger responsibility to our community and to the environment they are inserted in. It’s imperative that these organizations work to minimize the impact that water scarcity represents in our daily lives and in its economic, social and environmental commitments. The Herdade do Pinheiro, S.A. being an agricultural company in which its activity depends, on a large scale, on water as primal matter and considering its geographic position and easy access to the Sado river, the author develops an investment project with the goal of understanding if there is sustainability and economic viability in the implementation of a reverse osmosis desalination system in an agricultural company in Portugal. To achieve this goal, the investment project is based on a budget, which indicates the costs, and on the archives available from the Herdade do Pinheiro, S.A. that points to a qualitative approach. The main goal of this project is to find out whether there is viable economic favorable to its implementation, but as important as the viable economic values, is (taking into account the severe drought conditions) the organizations having the capacity to produce primal matter needed to achieve some independence from available natural resources.
Water is essential to the planet and is the biggest driver to reach sustainable development, once it is connected with socio-economic development, with food and energy production and the survival of ecosystems and the human kind. The demand for water, whether from population growth or the improvement of life quality, together with the climate changes, which cause scarcity or contamination of this resource and originates hydric stress that makes it impossible to access or its consumption. We all have the responsibility to minimize this problem, which is going to increase year by year and it is up to us to make a rational use of this resource. As for the government and organizations, they have a bigger responsibility to our community and to the environment they are inserted in. It’s imperative that these organizations work to minimize the impact that water scarcity represents in our daily lives and in its economic, social and environmental commitments. The Herdade do Pinheiro, S.A. being an agricultural company in which its activity depends, on a large scale, on water as primal matter and considering its geographic position and easy access to the Sado river, the author develops an investment project with the goal of understanding if there is sustainability and economic viability in the implementation of a reverse osmosis desalination system in an agricultural company in Portugal. To achieve this goal, the investment project is based on a budget, which indicates the costs, and on the archives available from the Herdade do Pinheiro, S.A. that points to a qualitative approach. The main goal of this project is to find out whether there is viable economic favorable to its implementation, but as important as the viable economic values, is (taking into account the severe drought conditions) the organizations having the capacity to produce primal matter needed to achieve some independence from available natural resources.
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Viabilidade Sustentabilidade Agricultura Dessalinização Viability Sustainability Agriculture Desalination