Rio invests only 16,8% of its budget for sanitation.

Rio 247 – Only 16,8% (R$ 127,6 million) of the R$ 759,4 million budgeted by the state government was spent on sanitation works in 2013. Compiled by state deputy Luiz Paulo Corrêa da Rocha (PSDB) in the Management Information System (SIG), a portal for revenue and budget execution, the data comes from the Ministry of Cities.

The cleanup of both Guanabara Bay and the Jacarepaguá lagoons is progressing slowly, reflecting the management problems in the sanitation sector in Rio. According to a 2012 report by the State Water and Sewage Company (Cedae), the company's revenue loss reaches 50%, meaning that the company only received payment for half of its production.

According to the survey, in recent years the average waste in the distribution of drinking water in Rio has reached 30%. It is worth noting that the average per capita consumption, of 237,8 liters per inhabitant/day in 2011, for example, exceeded the average of the states of São Paulo (186,8 liters), Minas Gerais (155,5) and Espírito Santo (192).

Without specifying which programs the funds were invested in, the state Department of Public Works reported, in a statement, that the state government spent R$ 327 million on sanitation works in 2013, using its own resources and those from the federal government. With a projected budget of R$ 5 billion for 2014, Cedae (the state water and sewage company) stated that projects to expand and modernize water supply networks that are underway, as well as those starting in 2014, total more than R$ 2 billion.

On February 11th, a new bidding process will take place for the revitalization and environmental recovery works of the Jacarepaguá lagoons. The date was rescheduled by the state Secretariat for the Environment, which, in July of last year, canceled the bidding process after a report in Época magazine pointed to suspected fraud in the process.