Investment in sewage, water treatment in Brazil up 1,000% in one year

The approval of the Marco do Saneamento, a piece of legislation outlining the new legal framework for sanitation, led the investment in sewage and water treatment in Brazil to increase over one thousand percent in one year, said the country’s Regional Development Minister Rogério Marinho.

“We went from BRL 4.5 billion under the federal, state, and municipal governments with their own resources plus resources from financing, to more than BRL 50 billion,” Marinho declared.

By 2033, the minister argued, the legislation should bring Brazil to 90 percent of sewage treated and 99 percent of the population with access to treated water.

“Today, 100 million people do not have treated sewage and 35 million Brazilians have no access to treated water. In this first year, we have guaranteed the financial contribution to slashing this deficit by ten percent in one year,” he said on Brasil em Pauta, aired on TV Brasil.