Proposta metodológica para análise de viabilidade econômico-financeira da universalização e prestação dos serviços de saneamento básico

Abstract

This paper presents a new methodology for analyzing the economic and financial feasibility of the universalization and provision of basic sanitation services, considering the increasing coverage of these services in each planning area. The methodology also considers the willingness of users to pay for the services, which allows evaluating different scenarios of feasibility from different combinations of incomes. The methodology was applied to the municipality of Juazeiro do Norte, in the State of Ceará, Brazil, as a case study, resulting in values for the investments lower than those for construction costs, as well as service incomes lower than the operation and maintenance costs, but with the more feasible scenario considering water and sewage incomes obtained from the basic sanitation companies, and solid waste and urban drainage incomes obtained from the study of willingness to pay.