UFRJ and Maricá City Hall Signed Water Security Contract Yesterday (07/29) to Ensure Access to Basic Sanitation and Water Supply Services in the Region

The Objective of the Contract Signed Between UFRJ and Maricá Is to Guarantee the Fundamental Right of the Population to Water Supply and the Reduction of Flood Risks

The Polytechnic School of UFRJ will develop a water security study for the municipality of Maricá. The goal of the project is to support ensuring municipal efficiency in exercising its competence related to the provision of basic sanitation services, especially water supply, minimizing, in an emergency manner, the impacts of drought on water supply for the municipality of Maricá and improving the operation of existing supply units.

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The contract between UFRJ and the City Hall of Maricá was signed yesterday (29/7) in a virtual ceremony with the participation of Mayor Fabiano Horta, the president of the Sanemar Water and Sewage Company, Rita de Cassia Livermore, UFRJ’s rector, Denise Pires, the director of UFRJ’s Polytechnic School, Cláudia Morgado, and Professor Paulo Canedo Magalhães, one of the project coordinators.

UFRJ Will Solve the Municipality’s Water Bottleneck

In the ceremony, the mayor and the president of Sanemar highlighted the importance of the partnership with UFRJ’s Polytechnic School to solve a water bottleneck in the municipality. “It is a time-consuming structuring process, but we need to build short-term solutions. This is the challenge of this partnership and an opportunity to apply university knowledge. Having UFRJ generating knowledge about a fundamental deficiency is a satisfaction and a work commitment to solve water and sanitation issues in the city in the next three and a half years,” said Mayor Fabiano Horta.

Professor Paulo Canedo Magalhães gave a presentation on the project and pointed out that it will be a very interesting challenge. “We will adopt various solutions, use imagination to create unusual devices precisely to mitigate scarcity and flooding in the period between the end of CEDAE’s term and the entry of EGEA, when significant investments can be made,” he explained.

The study for the City Hall of Maricá will be developed over six months and will involve the work of five professors from UFRJ’s Polytechnic School (Marcelo Gomes Miguez and Paulo Canedo Magalhães, study coordinators, Osvaldo Moura Rezende, and Virgílio Noronha Ribeiro da Cruz), two external consultants, one doctoral student, one master’s student, and two undergraduate students from the Polytechnic-UFRJ. It is noteworthy that all hydrological and hydrodynamic modeling tools are developed by the professors of the Polytechnic School of UFRJ themselves.