Evolution of Social, Sanitation and Public Health Indicators Related to the quality of water

André Fonseca Viegas; Ícaro Alves Ramiro; Antenor Oliveira Cruz Júnior; Alexandre Sylvio Vieira da Costa

André Fonseca Viegas Universidade Federal dos Vales do Jequitinhonha e Mucuri (UFVJM) https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6384-7944
Ícaro Alves Ramiro Universidade Federal de Viçosa (UFV) https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3509-357X
Antenor Oliveira Cruz Júnior Universidade Federal dos Vales do Jequitinhonha e Mucuri (UFVJM) https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6657-3926
Alexandre Sylvio Vieira da Costa Universidade Federal dos Vales do Jequitinhonha e Mucuri (UFVJM) https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7251-7816

Keywords: Water resources, Water quality, Water services, Public health

Abstract

With the change in the last decades of the Brazilian model of water management by Law 9.433/1997 of the National Water Resources Management Plan, the national system began to qualitatively evaluate, in addition to quantitatively, the issues related to Water Resources. New approaches to environmental, sanitation, and public health demands began to be part of the new model and thus a broad yet timely interface were established in water planning. The present article sought to compare social and public health indicators, such as the main diseases, with indicators of basic sanitation and those related to water quality, at national level and taking into account a historical series of data, as base year 2.000. From the analysis, it was verified that the improvement in the living conditions of the population was directly related to the water quality in the supply and collection of sanitary sewage, and a decrease of indicators when analyzed the historical series.