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Projeto Vida no Vale: universal access to water and sanitation in the North East of Minas Gerais (Brazil) |
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L. Kauark-Leite, B. Vinçon-Leite, J. F. Deroubaix, A. Loireau, D. Silveira, E. Haddad |
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Englisch
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1027-5606
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In: Hydrology and Earth System Sciences ; 12, no. 4 ; Nr. 12, no. 4 (2008-08-05), S.1075-1085 |
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250010759
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| Publikation (Nr.) |
 copernicus.org/hess-12-1075-2008.pdf |
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| Zusammenfassung |
| In the rural areas of the developing countries, the access to water supply
and sanitation services is still largely inadequate. Poor governance of the
water sector is frequently singled out as a cause and reforms are required.
Studies analyzing the great diversity of restructuring efforts currently
being undertaken in the water sector have not succeeded in determining the
most appropriate institutional and economic framework for such reforms.
Moreover they underline the lack of documentation on actual projects and
call for concrete models and tools for improving water and sanitation
services (WSS) and for adapting water utility practice to real conditions.
In this context, the Vida no Vale (Life in the Valley) project
is aimed at bringing
universal access to WSS for all inhabitants of both urban and rural areas,
in the north-eastern area of the Brazilian State of Minas Gerais. The
project takes sustainable development as its guiding principle, and relies
on the joint implementation of an innovative technical design, a governance
model involving public participation and subsidiarity, and an economic
structure combining financial viability and social equity. Designed at a
consistent geographical and hydrological scale, it includes the creation of
a regional subsidiary of the existing state water company as a keystone
element. The institutional organisation also relies on the creation of a
public board consisting of the 92 municipalities of the project region and
of the State of Minas Gerais. This board will be in charge of the system's
governance. This paper presents the first step of the project (2006),
consisting of a feasibility study and the implementation of 9 pilot
sub-projects. During the feasibility study, the supply, demand and capacity
to pay for water services were defined, existing infrastructure appraised,
the necessary amount of investment assessed and an innovative operational
model and a sustainable management system, including civil society
participation, defined. The main features of the Vida no Vale
project have been tested in
9 pilot sub-projects, and implemented in municipalities chosen for their low
Human Development Index and for the lack of WSS, in both urban and rural
areas. A second phase corresponding to the project's final implementation
will run from 2007 to 2011. The Vida no Vale project design
resulted in a logical and extensive framework which could be
used for developing similar WSS projects in other poor, rural
regions, its adaptiveness being a key feature for taking into account the
specific, local conditions. |
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