The objective of the contract signed between UFRJ and Maricá is to guarantee the fundamental right of the population to supply water and the reduction of risks resulting from flooding
The UFRJ Polytechnic School is going to prepare a water security study for the municipality of Maricá. The aim of the project is to provide support to ensure municipal efficiency in the exercise of its competence relating to the provision of basic sanitation services, in particular water supply, minimizing, on an emergency basis, the impacts of the drought on the municipal water supply. Maricá and improving the operation of existing supply units.
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The contract between UFRJ and the Municipality of Maricá was signed yesterday (29/7), in a virtual ceremony with the participation of Mayor Fabiano Horta, the president of Companhia de Saneamento de Maricá SA – Sanemar, Rita de Cassia Livermore, the dean of UFRJ, Denise Pires, the director of the UFRJ Polytechnic School, Cláudia Morgado, and professor Paulo Canedo Magalhães, one of the project coordinators.
UFRJ will solve the municipality's water bottleneck
At the ceremony, the mayor and president of Sanemar highlighted the importance of the partnership with the Polytechnic School of UFRJ to resolve a water bottleneck in the municipality. “It's a slow structuring process, but we need to build solutions in the short term. This is the challenge of this partnership and an opportunity to apply university knowledge. Having UFRJ generate knowledge about a fundamental deficiency is a satisfaction and a commitment to work to solve water and health 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 noted that it will be a very interesting challenge. “We are going to adopt several solutions, use our imagination to create non-ordinary devices precisely to mitigate shortages and floods in the period between the end of CEDAE and the entry into the scene of EGEA, when large investments can be made”, he explained.
The elaboration of the study for the Municipality of Maricá will take six months and will involve the work of five professors from the Polytechnic School of UFRJ (Marcelo Gomes Miguez and Paulo Canedo de 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 Politécnica-UFRJ. It is worth noting that the hydrological and hydrodynamic modeling tools were all developed by professors at the Polytechnic School of UFRJ.
