O papel da fase de planejamento na sustentabilidade econômica e social dos serviços de saneamento básico

Abstract

This article aims to assess the relevance of the planning phase in basic sanitation services, in order to ensure the maintenance of reasonable tariffs and the economic-financial sustainability of the contracts, as well as seeking to describe some of the difficulties faced in this process and the potential solutions contained in its normative framework. The method used was qualitative and descriptive, with an analysis of the legislation in force, municipal plans for basic sanitation in three Brazilian state capitals (São Paulo, Belo Horizonte and Goiânia) and the bibliography on the subject of the study. In the end, the article intends to demonstrate that only by prior empirical research carried out by the holders, expressed in a plan, will be possible to adequately guide the regulation and thus correctly administer the tariff intervention mechanisms (subsidies, subventions and even exemptions), not allowing both the abandonment of the most needy and the unjust enrichment of individuals, and more importantly, ensuring a safer path to achieving the results sought by the national Basic Sanitation Policy.