A geografia dos serviços de abastecimento públicos e privados de água relacionados às metas de universalização dos objetivos do desenvolvimento sustentável da Amazônia brasileira (2008-2023)

Abstract

The present thesis aims to analyze the water supply services based on geographic science and geographic space theory, as well as using the hypothetico-deductive method as a method of approach, with bibliographic and documental research as quantitative and qualitative method assigned to the secondary database, established in the research parameters, during the period between 2008 and 2023, plus the acting process of public and private companies which provide those services in the States of Pará and Amazonas, to give a comparison analysis between those service modalities from the parameters of the Basic Sanitation National System (SNIS) and the Basic Sanitation National Plan (PLANSAB), to identify if the management while serving the urban and rural population is efficient, and if the contractual goals are capable of reaching the sustainable development goals (ODS) for 2030. As for the theoretical basis, we utilized the reflection upon UN’s international documents, via “United Nations World Water Development Report (WWDR),” together with a reading about environmental justice concepts, hydric crisis, and hydric justice. It was also considered: a debate about the actions of Globalization and Neoliberalism, and, how these phenomena, together with the local rules and laws influence in the setting of water regulation agencies as part of a privatization process of public water supply companies in the cities of Belém (PA), Manaus (AM), Barcarena (PA) and Parauapebas (PA), and how that process works in the geographic space of a fraction of the Brazilian Amazon.