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| Author(s): |
Cristiane Fernandes de Oliveira
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Doctoral Thesis |
| Press: | São Paulo. |
| Institution: | Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH/SBD) |
| Defense date: | 2007-04-13 |
| Examining board members: |
Sandra Lencioni;
Maria Mónica Arroyo;
Wanderley Messias da Costa;
Helena Ribeiro;
Ricardo Toledo Silva
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| Advisor: | Sandra Lencioni |
| Abstract | |
The concessions of water supply and sanitation services, obtained by the transnational SUEZ group in Limeira-SP and Manaus-AM are discussed, focusing them as new strategies to spread up the group´s businesses. On this analyses, the acquisition of new concessions in water abundant areas in connection with the growing participation of the Suez group in the stock market is emphasized as a business spreading strategy despite of less investments and lack of local water and sanitation services improvement. In this manner, the discussion about the water and sanitation services in Manaus and Limeira recognizes that the priority is not the public interest, particularly because of the delay on the sanitation investments and the absence of positive strategies in order to include the poor part of the population in accessing drinking water and sanitation but, contrarily, the private interests of the concessionaries and consequently of the transnational group are the main goal. The defense of the group interests and rentability by its concessionaries has contributed to the maintenance of the water and sanitation exclusion of the less favored social classes and concurred for the environment and public health impairment, so costing and weakening even more the State which is, on the last instance, the one assuming all of those deficits. (AU) | |