The supply of quality fresh water is the most important natural resource in this decade. Agricultural expansion and the large-scale food production model have placed Brazil as one of the largest consumers of pesticides in the world and also as one of the countries that most tolerates the presence of these substances in water, without an efficient dissemination system in place. respect for the topic. At this juncture, Information and Communication Technologies can be an ally in scientific dissemination. Applications (Apps) for smartphones are still little explored in water resources, especially those designed to guarantee access to information about the quality of drinking water. In this sense, the objective of this work was to develop a mobile application for Android, as a Minimum Viable Product (MVP, for “Minimum Viable Product”), with data pertinent to the parameters of pesticides in drinking water offered by Water Supply Networks. Brazilian standards and made available by the National Water Quality Surveillance Program for Human Consumption (VIGIAGUA). The Application also has five more functions, namely: Legislation Consultation on Pesticides, Rapid River Assessment Protocol (PAR), Contacts of Toxicological Service Centers and Contact of Return Centers for used Pesticide packaging. The study was divided into two parts, the first is a survey of the literature specific to pesticides in drinking water and the second is about developing the application using the free open access software Mit App Inventor. The results presented demonstrated the viability of the developed App as an aid in scientific dissemination, especially while the popularization of access to data on water monitoring from the Water Quality Surveillance Information System for Human Consumption (SISAGUA), in addition to having chance to identify some of VIGIAGUAs deficiencies, thus being able to make recommendations for improvements to it, at the same time that a new technological tool is delivered to society with the prospect that this Application can be improved in new studies.
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