Open AccessUm esquecido marco do saneamento no Brasil: o sistema de águas e esgotos de Ouro Preto (1887-1890)
Author(s) -
Alberto Fonseca,
José Francisco do Prado Filho
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
história, ciências, saúde-manguinhos
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.277
H-Index - 18
eISSN - 1678-4758
pISSN - 0104-5970
DOI - 10.1590/s0104-59702010000100004
Subject(s) - sanitation , sewage , geography , humanities , political science , water resource management , environmental engineering , engineering , environmental science , art
This article resurrects, contextualizes and characterizes the water and sewage system of Ouro Preto, created at the end of the 1880's in response to sanitary problems and the need to modernize the old capital of the Brazilian State of Minas Gerais. Based on documentary research undertaken in public archives, bibliographical reviews, interviews and field inspections, the text corrects mistakes regarding the authorship and construction date of the system. The need to restore the hundred year old sewage treatment station is emphasized, given its relevance in the history of Brazilian sanitation. Today, in contrast with the past, the city of Ouro Preto discharges its sewage in natura into the streams that gave it gold.