Análise de concessão dos serviços de abastecimento de água em Santana do Araguaia - PA

Abstract

The universalization of sanitation services is a right guaranteed by the Brazilian Federal Constitution of 1988, but several cities are far from guaranteeing this right to their citizens. This reality experienced in Santana do Araguaia-PA, where about 21.34% of the population has access to treated water. Therefore, the present work aims to analyze the legal requirements present in the concession contract of the water supply services of Santana do Araguaia-PA, in order to verify the presence or absence of legal clauses that guarantee the expansion of the coverage of these services. For this, the bibliographic research was used as methodology to identify and elaborate a checklist with the mandatory legal requirements of public procurement of basic sanitation services. Subsequently, with the help of documentary research and the checklist, the legal requirements of the contract in question are evaluated, do not meet, or show inconstant. After documentary analysis, it was verified the absence of expansion goals in the contract, the inoperative methodology of tariff review and consequently the lack of social control instruments. These findings may favor the delay of the expansion of water supply services in the municipality under study. Based on the results obtained, it is recommended that the government carry out studies that identify and characterize the reality of the basic sanitation services of the municipality, encompassing together the public authorities, users, the concessionaire and the survey of environmental quality indicators.