Four states had less than 30% of households connected to the sewage network in 2022, says IBGE

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At the opposite end, with the best sanitation performance are São Paulo (96.4%), Federal District (94.1%), Minas Gerais (92.3%) and Rio de Janeiro (90.6%). ETE Manguinhos/Press Release Amapá, Piauí, Rondônia and Pará had less than 30% of their urban households connected to the sewage network in 2022. Data are from the 2022 General Characteristics of Households and Residents division of the National Household Sample Survey ( PNAD) Continuous, released this Friday (16) by the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE). According to the institute, the average percentage of households connected to the sewage system increased from 68.2% to 69.5% between 2019 and 2022. The four states with the worst result are well below this average: Amapá: 23, 1% Piauí: 23.3% Rondônia: 27.3% Pará, 28%. At the opposite end, with the best sanitation performance are: São Paulo: 96.4%; Federal District: 94.1%; Minas Gerais: 92.3%; Rio de Janeiro: 90.6%. According to the IBGE, last year Brazil had 74.1 million permanent private households, of which 85% (or 63 million) were houses and 14.9% (or 11 million) were apartments. Sanitation conditions Of the total households, 64.8 million are urban. Of these, 78% had sewage through the general collection network. Still of the total, 99.5% had piped water and 95.1% had access to the general water supply network. As for rural households, which totaled 9.4 million across the country, 40.2% had a septic tank not connected to the network, and 50.5% had another type of sewage system in 2022. The percentages of piped water and access to supply network are 88.2% and 38.9%, respectively. The proportion of households with sewage system by collection system stood at 69.5% in 2022, an increase of 1.3 percentage points in relation to the same survey carried out three years earlier. North (31.1%) and Northeast (50.1%) are the regions of the country with the lowest access — but, the IBGE points out that, for the first time, the Northeast has reached the mark of having half of its households connected to the network general sewer. Finally, 14.1% of Brazilian households still resorted to rudimentary cesspools or other inappropriate ways of discharging sewage, such as dumping it in ditches, rivers or the sea. General water network The general average of access to water has hardly changed in the country, according to the IBGE. Last year, 85.5% of Brazilian households were connected to the water distribution network. In 2016, they were 85.8%. The highest percentage of supply is in the Southeast region, which has 91.8% of access to the general water network. The North has the lowest percentage, with 60%. Among the Federation Units that had the general network as the main form of supply and with daily availability of water in 2022, the Federal District has the highest access (97.7%), while Pernambuco has the lowest (42.9%). “In 2022, about 9% (or 6.4 million) of households in the country that had the general network as their main form of water supply did not have a daily water supply, and 3.6 million of these households were in the Northeast” , says the IBGE. Electricity Electricity is practically universal in Brazil, according to the IBGE. Coverage reached 99.8% of households in the country in 2022, either through the general network or through an alternative source. “Electric energy coverage was high, both in urban (99.9%) and rural areas (99%). In 99.4% of households (73.7 million) electricity came from the general network and its availability it was full-time in 98.7% of cases (72.7 million households)”, says the institute. In rural areas, the percentage is lower (97.3%), with worse performance in rural areas in the North region (85%).

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