WASTEWATER

Collect

• 55% of population is provided with sewage network¹;

• Almost 100 million Brazilians (45%) do not have access to sewage collection.

• About 13 million children and adolescents do not have access to sanitation facilities²;

• 3,1% of children and adolescents do not have a toilet in their houses;

• 34 municipalities among the 100 largest cities in Brazil have more than 90% of their population are provided with sewage network³.

• In Brazil, the proportion of municipalities with sewage network increased from 47,3% in 1989 to 60,3% in 2017⁴.
  

Numbers by region

• North provides a sewage network to 13,1% (2,3 milions of the population ¹;

• Northeast provides a sewage network to 30,3% (16,9 milions) of the population¹;

• Southeast provides a sewage network to 80,5% (71,4 milions) of the population¹;

• South provides a sewage network to 47,4% (14,3 milions)  of the population¹;

• Midwest provides a sewage network to 59,5% (9,7 milions)  of the population ¹.
  
  

Wasterwater tratment

• 50,8% of the country's wastewater is treated¹.

• SOnly 18 municipalities among the 100 largest cities in the country treat more than 80% of wastewater treated³..

• In 2020, the percentage of untreated wastewater represented 5,3 million Olympic swimming pools dumped into nature.
  
  

Number by region

• 21,4%  of wastewater is treated in the North¹.
  
• 34,1% of wastewater is treated in the Northeast¹.
• 58,6% of wastewater is treated in the Southeast¹.
• 46,7% of wastewater is treated in the South¹.
• 58,5% of wastewater is treated in the Midwest¹.

Source¹: National Sanitation Information System-– SNIS 2020
Source²: Child Poverty 2018 – UNICEF
Source³: Basic Sanitation Ranking  – Instituto Trata Brasil
Source⁴: IBGE Source 2017