Indicators of Human Rights to Water and Sanitation for monitoring universalization based on the New Legal Framework For Sanitation in Brazil

• Grant number: 25/03422-0
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Master
• Start date: August 01, 2025
• End date: January 31, 2027
• Field of knowledge: Interdisciplinary Subjects
• Principal Investigator: Bruna Angela Branchi
• Grantee: Laura de Moraes Carvalho
• Host Institution: Escola de Economia e Negócios (EEN). Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Campinas (PUC-CAMP). Campinas , SP, Brazil

Abstract

The Sustainable Development Agenda brings together a set of goals and targets that integrate environmental, economic, social, and governmental elements to be developed by 2030. Among them, Sustainable Development Goal 6 (SDG 6) recognizes the challenge of promoting access to water and sanitation services for all individuals and, therefore, dialogues with the Human Rights to Water and Sanitation (HRWS) by establishing universal access to water and sanitation as targets for the year 2030. To this end, countries must include these elements in their laws and public policies, demonstrating commitment and international responsibility to the global objective and international law. Given this, analyzing the adequacy of the new sanitation framework (Law 14.026/2020) to such precepts is relevant to position Brazil in compliance with SDG 6 and HRWS, since its content is the target of criticism for its privatizing nature. However, the absence of specific indicators that capture all HRWS parameters, especially qualitative and disaggregated data, makes it difficult to monitor and evaluate this relationship. Thus, this qualitative research aims to classify, through an exploratory and descriptive methodology based on bibliographic and documentary sources, the main indicators of HRWS promotion and to analyze their application in Brazil, for the cases of privatization of Corsan (RS), Cedae (RJ) and Casal (AL). With this analysis, we hope to evaluate the potential of Law 14.026/2020 to promote the universalization of water and sanitation services, by HRWS, and to offer subsidies for the improvement of the integrated management of water resources.