摘要：The work presents study of case related to the Sanitary Drainage System’s inactivity in Itororó city. Considering the existence of a Sanitary Drainage System, delivered to the Municipal City Hall in 1996, where the amount of one million dollars was invested through Bahia’s Government and today it is in complete inactivity, this research aims to understand the municipal managers’ attitude in presence of the Colônia River’s pollution caused for liquid residues that comes from the system’s inactivity. The used methodology has a quali-quantitative emphasis, which half-structured interviews were realized with municipal managers divided in two groups, communitarian leaderships and power public’s representatives. Besides, opened interviews with the direct observation to the system and affected area were realized. The data have been collected in January 2006. The results demonstrate the community’s interest for the system’s reactivation, however, it doesn’t perceive concrete action in this direction, proving that there is a great distance between the good ambient intention and concret motion compromising the population’s health.
