The decisions, actions and policies concealed by the basic sanitation indices in the Seridó potiguar in 2021

• Autor(a) principal: Medeiros, Ravena Ravena Valcácer de
• Data de Publicação: 2024
• Outros Autores: Morais, Ione Rodrigues Diniz
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por; eng
• Título da fonte: Revista Geotemas
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.apps.uern.br/index.php/GEOTemas/article/view/5462
• topic: Saneamiento básico; Sistemas de objetos y sistemas de acciones; Seridó potiguar; Basic sanitation; Systems of objects and systems of actions; Seridó potiguar; Saneamento básico; Sistemas de objetos e sistemas de ações; Seridó potiguar

Basic sanitation is understood as a set of infrastructures and actions aimed at water supply services, sanitary sewage, drainage and rainwater management and solid waste collection and management. Thus, there is a set of object systems and sanitation action systems aimed at guaranteeing this right. Each sanitation system has a particular urban coverage rate, which is the result of present and past political decisions and actions, as well as the verticalization of the National Basic Sanitation Policy and Plan on a local scale. With this in mind, the aim of this article is to analyse access to the four sanitation systems in 2021 for the inhabitants of the Seridó region of Rio Grande do Norte, paying attention to the actions of public authorities at municipal, regional and national level in order to achieve the universalization of this right. Methodologically, we used bibliographical and documentary research, as well as the technical procedure of collecting secondary data. The study revealed discrepancies in the urban coverage of sanitation systems in the Seridó region of Rio Grande do Norte and in the provision of information by municipalities to the National Sanitation Information System. The disparities in access to basic sanitation in this area in 2021 make it difficult for this social right to be universalized. However, this situation is also linked to past conceptions of the Brazilian state, which have not yet been fully overcome and are even embodied in the Seridó potiguar.