After AEGEA (one of Brazil’s largest private sanitation companies) and the State Government of Piaui had signed a state-wide 35 year concession for basic sanitation services (water and wastewater) in urban and rural areas in the northeastern state of Piaui on January 10th 2025, the director of MACS do Brazil, Kassyo Rodrigues, together with the director of SISAR Picos have been invited by representatives of AEGEA to discuss a possible alignment of the SISAR Model with the expansion strategy of the concessioner. Founded in 2010, AEGEA currently operates water and wastewater systems in 760 cities located in 15 Brazilian States from the north to the south of the country. For MACS, this is a new opportunity to boost the SISAR Model beyond the constraints of the public sector and potentially bring improved water supply and sanitation approaches to the network of rural regions of Piauí.
