The issue of sanitation services in Brazil is a serious problem, a consequence of the disorderly process of urbanization and the lack of investment and planning by the government, such conditions directly interfere in ...

Concerns about climate change have grown over the years and gained momentum in the scientific, social and political spheres. Despite the global reach, pollution- generating effects, their consequences and mitigation actions, ...

Trachoma is a recurrent chronic bacterial keratoconjunctivitis caused by Chlamydia trachomatis (serotypes A, B, Ba and C) and usually affects children between one and ten years of age. The World Health Organization considers ...

Since the earliest historical records to the present day, a solid evolution in wastewater treatment has been observed. Factors such as the need to reduce the area for system implementation, minimize costs, optimization of ...

As the population grows, it increases the search for drinking water and the use of alternative sources of abstraction becomes necessary, since surface and groundwater sources are no longer suppressed as population ...

Urban sanitation has the goal of preserving the quality of the environment, such as the quality of life and health of the population. The basic sanitation is a right of every citizen, ensured by Law No. 11,445, of January ...

The rapidity of the phenomenon of urbanization in recent decades in Brazil has brought with it the consequences of urban disorder. Due to this tendency, the infrastructure elements are destined primarily to central areas ...

The Dengue is an urban and tropical arbovirose transmitted by a domestic, anthropophilic and diurnal hematophageal activity mosquito, the Aedes aegypti, which uses water as a medium for reproduction. The objective of this ...