New Business and New Products

• Reclaimed Water
  
  Reclaimed water is a product resulting from the treatment of effluents in sewage stations, supplied by SABESP for non-drinking purposes. During 2005, SABESP supplied about 235 million liters of reclaimed water from the Water Treatment Stations and from the Parque Novo Mundo, ABC, Barueri and São Miguel Sewage Treatment Stations.
  
  
  
• Assistance to Municipalities Not Served by SABESP
  
  The Regional Systems Division, through its Assistance to Non-served Municipalities served, in 2005, 57 SANEBASE Agreements, totaling R$ 4.6 million, in addition to 110 assessments of requests of funds sent by the Municipalities and by the Legislative Assembly of the State of São Paulo. SANEBASE is a program of the São Paulo State Government that provides funds for basic sanitation enterprises, preferably to small-sized municipalities not served by SABESP.
  
  
  

Environmental Actions

The Environmental Education Program - SABESP “Educando para a Cidadania” began in 2005 in the Cotia-Guarapiranga and Billings-Tamanduateí Basins, performed with funds from FEHIDRO, which graduated 640 people among educators, leaders and technicians responsible for 51 implemented projects, to the benefit of more than 9,000 people in the Guarapiranga and Billings mains areas.

“Paraisópolis Program” began in an integrated project between the Municipality of São Paulo and SABESP, which comprises the reurbanization of the Paraisópolis, Jardim Colombo and Porto Seguro communities, to the benefit of approximately 80,000 people. Such program foresees the actions of canalization of streamlets, creation of public leisure areas, construction of staircases and pedestrian alleys, in addition to the complementation of the water supply system and execution of sewage collection networks and pumping stations.

Seeking for environmental improvements, SABESP has been developing a process for clean-up of water streams and bodies with the performance of works and follow-up of the clean-up level, with the following having been performed in 2005:

• Clean-up of the Ibirapuera Park lakes;
  
  
• Clean-up of the Carajás Stream in the Juventude Park (Northern zone of the Capital);
  
  
• Clean-up of the Parque do Cordeiro stream (Southern zone of the Capital);
  
  
• Clean-up of the Lago Principal, inside the Área de Proteção Ambiental do Carmo, in the Eastern zone of the Capital.
  
  
  

Program for the Rational Use of Water - PURA

During 2005, the PURA Program implementation was concluded in the Army General Hospital, in the Companhia de Processamento de Dados do Estado de São Paulo (PRODESP) headquarters and in 5 POUPATEMPO Units (Sé, Santo Amaro, Itaquera, São Bernardo do Campo and Guarulhos), achieving consumption reductions from 10% to 22%.