Autonomy and reduction of municipal vulnerability in the legal milestone of basic sanitation

Abstract

Basic sanitation in Brazil involves a regulatory environment shared by federal entities. This article identifies the norms involved in such process and analyzes how municipalities would be affected by the regulatory changes that impact funding with resources from the federal sphere. As methodology, the bibliography review and data collection on official websites were adopted, corroborating the identification of vulnerabilities in Brazilian municipalities. The research aims to expose the main circumstances that compromise municipal autonomy and the respect for regional and local disparities in the context of basic sanitation. It was concluded that the municipal autonomy is confronted, at least, doubly: both under the aspect of observance of ANA’s normative acts as a condition for financing, and due to the factual vulnerability observed by the indices presented (IVS and GDP per capita).