FASEP MARU-Brazil : Pilot project to strengthen the monitoring and assessment of the impact of urban wastewater discharges in two priority river basins in Brazil
The project in brief
Although Brazil has a population of more than 210 million, barely more than half the wastewater produced in the country is treated, and almost 40% of the urban population is not connected to a sewerage system.
Faced with this challenge, in June 2020, the Brazilian Federal Senate approved a new regulatory framework for sanitation that aims to facilitate private participation in the sector and sets targets for the universalisation of water and sanitation services throughout the country.
The aim of the MARU (Monitoramento das Águas Residuais urbanas e do seu Impacto Ambiental) project is to help improve the efficiency of monitoring the impact of urban wastewater pollution, in order to better identify the actions that need to be taken to protect the quality of water resources and aquatic environments.
OiEau's missions
- Organisation of exchanges of experience: institutional aspects, monitoring of environments and discharges, programmes of measures,
- Analysis of the potential expectations, needs and resources of the partners and discussion of maintenance scenarios,
- Production of a working document of the "UWW data master plan" type for the pilot municipalities, with an overall strategic vision for the 2 basins,
- Organisation of the acquisition and installation of equipment and services to enhance data production (continuous in situ quality monitoring stations, satellite operation),
- Improving the comparability of data made available by the various producers from their information systems,
- Setting up data feedback procedures and strengthening the platforms for integrating, processing and displaying field and satellite data at the level of the Basin Agencies,
- Transforming data into information useful for decision-making and making available various information products and online services to decision-makers, partners and the public (indicators, newsletters, etc.).