Sustainability Report 2021
Message from
The Águas do
SUMMARY
Presentation
Management
Brasil Group
Integrity and
Transparency
Fostering
Universal Access
to Sanitation
Water Security
and Climate
Change
Efficient
Water
Our Utility
Companies
About this
Report
GRI
Summary
Corporate
Information
Cycle
WWTP Conselheiro Paulino
Operation and growth 103-2, 103-3 | 203
Operational excellence, based on the capacity to execute and deliver water and
sanitation services, is an aspect that characterizes the company's trajectory.
Facing the pandemic scenario, established in 2020 and continued through
2021, the company maintained its guidelines. It sustained the quality standard
of its operations even when pressed by the challenges presented in the period.
The policies and guidelines for investments go beyond the goals established
in the concession contracts in effect, always aligned to generate value for the
company and society. In the 2019-2021 period, the Group invested more than
BRL 800 million in its utility companies, mainly aimed at the well-being of the
population served by expanding the distribution of treated water and the
collection and treatment of wastewater in the cities in which it operates. In 2021,
the Group invested BRL 332 million in the operation of its utility companies,
an amount of BRL 133 million more than in 2020. This increase reflects the
resumption of investments after a year of many challenges brought on by the
pandemic to ensure the continuity and quality of the services provided to the
population, as well as the fulfillment of contractual goals and responsibilities.
203-1
In December 2020, the Group won the bidding process for the full water
and wastewater concession in the municipality of Paraíba do Sul, in Rio de
Janeiro. In less than a year, the utility company reached a 99% rate of treated
water distributed and reduced distribution losses (see Our utility companies
for more information).
In December 2021, the company won the auction for the second phase of the
basic sanitation concession of the Rio de Janeiro State Water and Sanitation
Utility (Cedae), with a bid of BRL 2.2 billion. The concession, referred to as
Rio+ Saneamento, has synergy with the Group's activities, which serve
municipalities bordering its existing operations and provide services to
a significant region of the city of Rio de Janeiro, where it already operates
through Zona Oeste Mais Saneamento.
4 Considering 50% interest in Zona Oeste Mais Saneamento, and 60% interest in the
Águas de Votorantim utility company.
Sustainability Report 2021
INVESTMENT IN UTILITY COMPANIES ($ THOUSANDS)
278,249.1
31,640.2
198,803.7
Others
35,510.0
Sewage
162,381.4
Water
101,485.9
61,807.8
2019
84,227.5
2020
332,151.9
25,245.9
2021
184,924.4
121,981.6
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