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The Ceará State is located in north-eastern Brazil. Its coastal zone is approximately 572 km long, and consists mainly of long sandy beaches occasionally interrupted by small rivers and rocky headlands. The State is constantly affected by periodic droughts; for this reason the use of water resources is fundamental to the State’s developmental process. Despite the mild climate in the coastal areas, the problem of water shortage have become more and more serious due firstly to the lack of a systematic system of provisioning and secondly to the increase of the number of inhabitants occupying the coastal zone. This occupation has been initially vacation cottages (beach houses) and more recently tourism outfits such as lodges, hotels and resorts. Also, the demand for water is much higher than the water supply and becomes worse during periods of drought (Maia 1998).
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Maia, L.P., Lima, J.P.R. (2004). Hydrogeochemical Characterisation of Groundwater Saline Intrusion in the Western Shore of Ceará, North-Eastern Brazil. In: Drude de Lacerda, L., Santelli, R.E., Duursma, E.K., Abrão, J.J. (eds) Environmental Geochemistry in Tropical and Subtropical Environments. Environmental Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-07060-4_20
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