As ilhas de exclusão do abastecimento de água e do esgotamento sanitário em Pirapora-MG

Abstract

Access to drinking water and sanitation, primary needs for maintaining life, are human rights Assembly internationally in Resolution no. 64/292 of 2010 of the United Nations (UN), to which Brazil is a signatory. Considering the inequality of access to these services in the world, an inequality that is increasing in Brazil, it is necessary and urgent that public policies for water supply and sanitary sewage are based on the universalization and equity principles and the recognition of these services as universal human rights. To this end, sanitation management tools that grasp the reality of access are indispensable. Therefore, this research aims to investigate the existence of possible islands of exclusion from water supply and sanitation in the municipality of Pirapora-MG. As a methodological approach, the records of water supply and sewage networks were superimposed on satellite images of the municipality to identify areas underserved by infrastructure, proceeding to characterize them as areas of infrastructural vulnerability. In Pirapora-MG, the implementation of water supply and sanitary sewage services reflects the Brazilian reality, with priority in water supply, large deficits in sanitary sewage, exclusion of rural and irregular areas and the lack of implementation of equity principles in public policies.