Política de tarifas e gestão para serviços autônomos de água e esgoto que atendem municípios de pequeno porte e comunidades de baixa renda

Abstract

Basic sanitation in Brazil faces a range of challenges, including missions to universalize access and recover standards of service provision in areas served with disabilities. The 1988 Federal Constitution ensured the Municipalities the right to public health care, which allows city halls to manage water and sewage systems indirectly, through municipalities called Autonomous Water and Sewage Services (SAAE). In the case of small cities, with low-income communities, the SAAE model does not always comply with the principles of the National Basic Sanitation Policy (PNSB), with a lack of planning, technicality and regulation. In order to get a closer look at the reality of water and sewage services in Cajueiro / AL, an extensive sectorial diagnosis was carried out, gathering internal information from the administrative, accounting, financial, legal, technical and operational areas and knowing the tariff policy practiced. The result was an institutional imbalance, motivated by overlying political interference, which compromises the efficiency and quality of services. 96.43% of revenue and 80% of revenue for the year 2019 came from users in the residential category who occupy the first consumption ranges. This characterizes the inversion of PNSB values, highlighting the inconvenience and regressiveness of the current Brazilian tariff model for municipalities that share the same context. The tariff and management policy proposed by this work attributes to the application of compliance and regulation guidelines the resumption of advances and the recovery of SAAE's economic and financial sustainability.