Impact on Health

The Novo Rio Pinheiros program is reducing the amount of sewage that reaches the river.

Sanitation actions are concentrated in the 25 streams that most carry pollutants to the river and are carried out in three ways:

• Works to expand sewage collection and treatment throughout the Pinheiros Basin.

• Expansion of the number of properties connected to the sewage network.

• Implementation of five Water Quality Recovery Units to recover water from streams where conventional sanitation works cannot be done because of poor urbanization conditions.

• From 4,600 to 7,400 liters of treated sewage per second. • 1.6 million people with sewage taken to treatment. • BRL 1.7 billion of investments.

For every dollar invested in water and sanitation, there is a $ 4.3 return in the form of health care costs. WHO - World Health Organization

The expansion of sewage collection and treatment helps to prevent DRSAI - Diseases Related to Inadequate Environmental Sanitation: Diarrhea, Hepatitis A, Dengue, Yellow Fever, Leishmaniasis, Schistosomiasis, Leptospirosis, Helminthiasis, Teniasis, and others.

Combat water-borne diseases.

Target 3.3 of SDG 3