Political ecology and basic sanitation: analysis from the metropolitan periphery of the Rio de Janeiro

Abstract

Access to water supply and sewerage networks are essential elements of basic sanitation, however, access to these networks is conditioned to exclusionary models and reflects an unequal way of reproducing space. There is a need to critically think about a political ecology that assesses the conditions of this supply and reveals the asymmetries in times marked by neoliberalism, which incorporates, from the new legal framework, new directions for sanitation policy in the country. Thus, the present text aims to present a critical view from the existing realities on the periphery of the outskirts of the metropolis of Rio de Janeiro - extracted from the segment of the Metropolitan Far West - given the current context of privatization (concession) of supply services and wastewater collection. Access data are used based on IBGE and SNIS and a cartography that explains the differences in access to such services in the Far West Metropolitan Fluminense, having its exemplification from the case of the city of Paracambi Key-words: Access to water and sewage, neoliberalism, CEDAE privatization, Inequalities