The springs are sources of water, surface or underground, used both for human supply and for the maintenance of economic activities.

The watershed areas include portions of the territory covered and drained by streams from the sources to the rivers, lakes, reservoirs and ground water, ground water supply. Unfortunately, the springs have been compromised by the use of clay for the manufacture of blocks and bricks, deforestation, improper use of soil and subsoil. As water is essential to life, these problems can affect all humanity.

The clays are found in more humid areas and these points are water sources that feed our streams, rivers, and groundwater, in short there is plenty of organic material, an entire ancient ecosystem involved. This will be completely destroyed to remove the clay, which is ideal for the manufacture of blocks and bricks. This situation will therefore drastically reduce the supply of groundwater. Considering that water is a global problem, after extracting all that stuff, the site is useless for any productive activity.

With social development, the springs were raided, but formerly they were isolated and unrelated to their use and urban settlement. But now, there is interference in the ecosystem, in addition, every action that occurs in a basin just reflecting on the water quality of this stock.

For example, another worrying factor was the aggressive appearance of industrial areas even away from the main water body, but with large pollution and, therefore, able to completely degrade this spring.

Nowadays, water supplies are seriously damaged and the immediate consequences of this are the lack of water, the impairment of health, environmental quality, the very extinction of the springs and then the living beings.

The basic infrastructure of sanitation ends up dumping their sewage in the watershed, bringing organic materials, coli forms, pesticides, plantations and among other improper substances. In this way, it affects the quality and potential uses of these waters. Moreover, water resources are being undermined by environmental imbalances resulting from deforestation and improper land use, mainly for the use of clay for the manufacture of various types of materials for conventional construction.

The increase of various contaminants, coli forms and Biochemistry of Oxygen Demand-BOD is a good indicator of the amount of pollution to water logging, because the more organic matter you have, the proliferation of bacteria is triggered by increasing the total activity and breathing therefore, there is an increased demand for oxygen.

Eco Máquinas is a living proof of the possibility of combining economic growth with sustainability, in addition to ecological bricks and blocks manufactured from Hydraulic Press Industry not use clay, and yes, the Earth. (Note Link Solo).

Therefore, it is possible to develop economically, industrially and build an ecologically correct manner, all without harming the environment.