Managing municipal water is a major challenge that involves understanding the importance of drinking water and basic sanitation. Do you know what these two terms mean in practice and how they impact people's lives?
These are fundamental items for the guarantee of human dignity. This is because access to treated water and depletion contribute to:
Despite being basic services, according to the United Nations (UN), about 40% of people in the world do not have safe access to drinking water and another 50% do not have river and wastewater treatment.
When it comes especially to Brazil, data from the National Sanitation Information System (SNIS), released in 2020, reveal that 16% of the population still has no treated water and 47% lives without sewage services.
So, do you want to understand more about the subject? Keep reading!
Ensuring quality access to drinking water and basic sanitation brings a series of benefits to the management of the city, its industry, and citizens.
Treated water, collection, and sewage treatment services significantly improve people's lives, bringing safety and convenience to carry out a series of daily activities, from bathing and brushing your teeth to preparing your food and discarding your waste.
In addition, the guarantee and improvement of these services contributes positively to:
Access to drinking water and sanitation also promotes health improvements. Ingesting untreated water and direct contact with sewage, for example, can expose people to a range of dangerous diseases, which can also burden public hospitals and increase the local mortality rate. Some examples of illnesses are:
This care can still generate good savings for the municipality. A study conducted by the Trata Brasil Institute reveals, for example, that for every R$1.00 invested in sanitation, R$4.00 is generated in health savings. On the contrary, cities that do not invest in exhaustion end up having higher rates of hospitalization for diarrhea, with children being the most affected.
Water is considered drinkable when it is suitable for human consumption. In short, this resource is understood as such when it is free of substances and organisms that can harm the health of those who use it.
To do this, it also needs to have some characteristics:
It is common to confuse drinking water with fresh water, that available in rivers and lakes. However, to have good drinking conditions, this resource must undergo specific treatments, not least because there are microscopic organisms and dirt that are not identified with the naked eye and can cause serious health problems.
Thus, to become drinkable, fresh water is sent to treatment plants, where it undergoes various filtering and disinfection processes.
Although about 70% of the planet is covered by this input, a large part of it comes from the oceans (98%), which, due to its large amount of salt, cannot be used. In other words, in the end, less than 2% of all the water available on Earth can supply us. For this reason, it is so important that companies and governments ensure their preservation and seek efficient ways to reduce their consumption.
Investing in drinking water care and sanitation is the first step in acting for this protection. The correct treatment of sewage, for example, prevents the pollution of streams and rivers, which are our natural sources of supply of this water resource.
As already mentioned, betting on the evolution of drinking water and sanitation protects people from a series of diseases, helping to reduce the mortality rate, improve the health system and the city's economy.
There are many advantages of betting on these services and, for that, Projesan is here to help you. We understand that this is an indispensable resource for human survival and the evolution of cities. Therefore, we act to improve the quality of treated water on a large scale in municipal and industrial Water Treatment Plants (ETAs) through planned chemical solutions.
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