The pandemic of capital in the water supply sector

Abstract

This paper aims to show that the recent changes in the framework of water-related services are the effect, on a national scale, of a recent structural change in the dynamics of global capitalism. The objective is to clarify readers of health field regarding to the process of financialization that is taking place in the sanitation sector in Brazil, which threatens the public health. To this end, we intend to show, from the perspective of critical geography theory, how the new sanitation framework and the creation of a water market in Brazil meet the interests of international elites who, in the face of cyclical crises in the productive field, are looking for opportunities to profit over common goods and nature. It also discusses the role of the State in all this process and the likely effects that have already been pointed out by the literature on the subject.