The Ministry of Cities is expected to launch a selection for water supply in rural areas in the amount of R $ 400 million. According to Minister Jader Filho, the focus is to serve, for example, families victims of the droughts who have happened in the Amazon in recent years or in places that are served by the Army’s Pipa car program.
“We have seen in concessions that the focus is on the urban area and in most contracts the rural area is left out. So, the federal government intends to continue investing to bring water supply to rural areas,” said the minister on Tuesday (27), during the 33rd Brazilian Congress of Health and Environmental Engineering in Brasilia.
According to the minister, it is necessary to encourage more resources to be placed in rural areas. “We cannot have investments happening only in the urban area, we have to bring sewage and water supply to the rural areas of Brazil, so we made this selection within the Ministry of Cities,” he added.
For COP 30, in Belém, Jáder Filho assured that works are being carried out to improve the infrastructure of the city that will receive the event. For example, the BRT work that takes from the airport to Almirante Barroso Avenue, one of the city’s main connecting roads.
One of the main sights of Belém, the Ver-o-Peso market, will be contemplated with a sanitary sewage work. The market is 125 years old and to this day there was no sewage system.
The Minister of Cities also said that the country is working to advance the goal of universalization of water and sewage services by 2033. He avoids any expansion of the deadline.
“We are dialoguing, seeking to talk to states, municipalities, and dealers, how the federal government can help us reach the goal of 2033,” concluded the minister.
The president of the Brazilian Association of Sanitary Sewage (ABES), Marcel Sanches, also stressed that the legal framework establishes the fulfillment of the goal by 2033.
“Since 2020, the sector has moved to organize reference standards for regulation and give the legal certainty necessary to attract new investments in the private sector. In addition, regionalization allows grouping municipalities to have a more attractive process for investments,” he said.
