Description
O Vigiágua é um programa federal de controle de qualidade e segurança da água para consumo humano, implementado pelas secretarias de saúde municipais, com apoio das secretarias estaduais, para realizar o monitoramento contínuo das águas, incluindo o controle em sistemas simplificados, de soluções coletivas e individuais. Além do monitoramento das infraestruturas de abastecimento de água, o programa envolve ações educativas para sensibilizar as famílias quanto aos cuidados necessários para o consumo de água segura nos domicílios
O Vigiágua propiciou a ampliação do controle da qualidade da água em larga escala no país, interferindo diretamente na redução dos números da mortalidade infantil, e na diminuição das DDA (Doenças Diarreicas Agudas).
Criteria 11/11
- ACCESSIBILITY
- ALIGNMENT WITH SDG 1,3,4,6 AND/OR 11
- RACE AND GENDER ISSUES
- ATTENTION TO CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS
- LOW COST
- SOCIAL DIFFUSION
- ADMINISTRATIVE EFFICIENCY
- ADHERENCE AND CONTINUITY AT LOCAL LEVEL
- WASH INITIATIVE
- CLIMATE RESILIENCE
- SUSTAINABILITY
Vigiágua is operated by the municipal and state health secretariats and the Health Surveillance Secretariat.
• State and municipal managers who work in the National Water Quality
Monitoring Program
• Companies providing water supply services for drinking water.
All Brazilian municipalities
Since 2003.
The program consists of a set of activities that are continuously adopted by public health authorities to guarantee the population access to water in sufficient quantity and quality compatible with the standard of potability, as established in current legislation. As such, the program forms part of an integral approach of health promotion and prevention of waterborne diseases.
The operationalization of the program is managed through the Information System for
Drinking Water Quality Monitoring (SISÁGUA), which is supplied by professionals working in the municipal secretariats.
The manuals and teaching materials detailing the procedures for the operationalization of Vigiágua are included on the SISÁGUA home page.
Vigiágua has been monitoring the water quality of collective and individual alternative solutions, especially water trucks and cisterns; in addition to working in partnership with Primary Care in the development of health education actions, aiming to guide the population to treat water at home by filtering and disinfecting it with 2.5% sodium hypochlorite solution or by filtering and boiling it.
The Ministry of Health evaluated the program with the Municipal Health Councils to understand the strengths and weaknesses of the system, with the aim of obtaining information on how Vigiágua is operating, in the quest to continuously improve the program.
