Various studies and experiences have been carried out in the Northeast region in relation to the implementation and use of social technologies for collecting rainwater, and the use of cisterns is a mechanism that has proven to be efficient. When farmers come into contact with these technologies, they have an impact on their reality, as is the case in rural communities in the municipality of Ibipeba/Bahia, where some families were given rainwater cisterns, and it was possible to survey these impacts in order to systematize them in this work.