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Glossary
ADDUCTOR
Those are conduits destined to link the raw water supply sources to water treatment stations, located beyond the surroundings
of these sources, or the conduits linking treatment stations located near these sources, to distant reservoirs that feed distribution
networks.
ANA
National Water Agency, an autarchy under a special regime linked to the Environment Ministry – MMA, created through the Federal Law no. 9,984 of 17.07.2000, and is responsible for the implementation of the National Hydric Resource Policy and for the coordination of the National Hydric Resource Management System.
ARSAE-MG
Regulating Agency for Water Supply and Sanitary Sewage Services of the State of Minas Gerais, created in August 3rd, 2009, through Law 18,309 and that establishes the norms related to the water supply and sanitary sewage systems in Minas Gerais.
BASIC SANITATION
Predominantly, it is the use of hydric resources for meeting the basic hygiene and public health needs for population hubs,
including uses in commercial, industrial and service-rendering endeavors. It is the part of sanitation linked to planning, project,
construction, operation and maintenance of systems for capture, treatment, adduction and distribution of water, as well as the
collection, removal, treatment and final disposition of sewage.
BILLING LOSS INDEX
Volume produced minus the volume billed, divided by the volume produced, multiplied by 100.
CHARGING FOR THE USE OF HYDRIC RESOURCES
Is one of the instruments for management of hydric resources, essential to create the equilibrium conditions between the forces
of supply (water availability) and demand, thus promoting the harmony among competing users, at the same time in which it
also promotes the redistribution of social costs, the improvement in the quality of effluents launched, besides stimulating the
formation of financial funds for the works, programs and interventions of the field.
CODEMIG
Minas Gerais State Economic Development Company.
COPAM
State Environmental Policy Council. Maximum body at the State of Minas Gerais responsible for environmental management. With its specialized chambers (chambers for mining activity, industrial, farm/forest/shepherding, etc.), exerts a normative, authorization and deliberative role state-wide.
DISTRIBUTION NETWORK
The distribution network consists on the last stage of a water supply system, constituting a set of conduits settled in public
networks or sidewalks, to which home branches are connected. As such, the function of the distribution network is to conduct the
treated waters to the points of consumption, maintaining its characteristics according to the potability standards.
DIVERSITY
Presupposes the creation of equal opportunities and respect to the dignity of all people, regardless of their differences, allowing for full development of their potential and abilities.
DOMESTIC SEWAGE
Sewage formed by the use of water for domestic ends, such as washing of clothes, baths, etc.
EBITDA
Represents the net revenue of sales and/or services, deducting the costs of services rendered, expenses with sales, administrative
expenses and other operational expenses, disregarding non-recurring expenses, plus the reversion of depreciations and amortizations. The EBITDA Margin is calculated on the Net Service Revenue.
EBITDA MARGIN
Represents the quotient between the EBITDA of the company and its net revenue of services (net operational revenue + other operational revenues).
ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT
Is any change in physical, chemical and biological properties of the environment, caused by any form of matter or energy resulting
from human activities, which, directly or indirectly, affect: the health, safety and well-being of the population; the social and
economic activities; the biota; the aesthetic and sanitary conditions of the environment; and the quality of environmental resources.
ENVIRONMENTAL LICENSING
Is the administrative procedure by which the public power authorizes the installation, enlargement, modification and operation of
activities or endeavors that use environmental resources considered to be effectively or potentially pollutant.
ETA (WATER TREATMENT STATION)
Represents the set of facilities and equipment destined to make the treatment of raw water.
ETE (SEWAGE TREATMENT STATION)
Represents the set of facilities and equipment destined to carry out the treatment of sewage.
FEDERAL DOMAIN WATERS
Are waters that belong to the Union for rivers (hence surface waters) when they go through more than one State and/or are borders
with other states or countries or waters accumulated in dikes created by the Union.
FREE FLOAT
Stocks of a company that are available for free negotiation in the capital market. Those are all stocks of the company that are
not committed to any of the following cases: titularity stocks of the controller shareholder, of their spouse, companion and
dependants included in the yearly income tax report; stocks in treasuries; stocks of titularity of companies controlled by and linked
to the company, and other societies with integrate a same group in fact or by law with any of those; stocks of the titularity of
companies controlled by and linked to the controlling shareholder, as well as other societies with integrate a same group in fact
or by law with any of those; preferential special-class stocks that have as their end to ensure differential political rights, whether
non-transferrable or exclusive property.
GRANT
Is one of the management instruments for hydric resources, in which the user receives an authorization to make use of the water,
through the use of a given output, of a hydric source, specific in a defined location, for a given use, during a given time period and
that may ensure to it a right to the use of water.
GRANT CONTRACT
Contracts signed with Cities for the rendering of water supply and/or sanitary sewage services.
GRANTABLE VOLUME
Maximum volume that can be granted at a hydric body whose amount is made up by the sum of the volume already granted with the volume still available for granting.
GRANTS
Authorization for the rendering of water supply and/or sanitary sewage services.
GROSS PROFIT
Difference between the Net Revenue and the Cost of Services Rendered.
HYDROGRAPHIC BASIN
Is one of the instruments for management of hydric resources, essential to create the equilibrium conditions between the forces of supply (water availability) and demand, thus promoting the harmony among competing users, at the same time in which it also promotes the redistribution of social costs, the improvement in the quality of effluents launched, besides stimulating the formation of financial funds for the works, programs and interventions of the field.
HYDROGRAPHIC BASIN COMMITTEE
Is a collegiate body with normative, consultive and deliberative attributions and the main focus for knowledge, debate of issues,
planning and making of decisions about the multiple uses of hydric resources in the scope of the hydrographic basin of its
jurisdiction.
HYDROMEASUREMENT
Usage of equipment for the measurement of the water volume consumed by a building unit.
IBGE
Brazilian Geography and Statistics Institute.
IEF
State Forest Institute
IGAM
Minas Gerais Water Management Institute.
INDUSTRIAL SEWAGE
Sewage formed by the use of water in industrial processes.
INSTALLATION LICENSE(LI)
Authorizes the installation of the endeavor or activity as per the specifications present in the plans, programs and projects approved,
including environmental control measures and other conditioners. Granted by COPAM and with a validity of up to 6 months.
INTERCEPTOR
Is the canalization to which several collectors are transversally linked with the end of capturing the discharge of dry weather, with or without a given amount of pluvial water from the combined or unitary sewage system.
IPO (Initial Public Offering)
First release of stocks to the public made by a company.
LINKAGE
Building ramification connected to the water distribution network or sewage collection network. Can be active or inactive.
LOSS REDUCTION PROGRAM
Program implemented by Copasa in 2006 with the goal of controlling the losses. Among the main actions in course of the “Loss Reduction Program”, the following can be mentioned: adequation of networks, stratified analysis of the consumption, automation,
commercial listing, network listing, communication, pressure control at the network, controlling of non-visible leaks and losses,
adequation of operational teams, management of the infrastructure, supply intermittence, micro-measurement, pitometry,
installation, maintenance and revitalizing of macro-measurers, maintenance of the micro-measurer park, measurement and
quantification of volumes, research of commercial losses, research of leaks, speed and quality of repairs, administrative services,
services at the building network, replacement of hydrometers and leaks at reservoirs.
NATIONAL SANITATION INFORMATION SYSTEM(SNIS)
System that gathers information and indicators about the rendering of services of water and sewage stemming from a sample of
renderers that operate in Brazil.
NET MARGIN
Indicator used in the financial analysis of companies, which expresses the relation between the net profit of the company and its
Net Operational Revenue. The net margin determines the percentage of each R$ 1 of sale that remained after the deduction of all
expenses, including income tax, and is calculated as being the quotient between the net profit and the Net Operational Revenue
of the company.
NET OPERATIONAL REVENUE
Amount that the company effectively receives for the sales of its products, that is, the gross revenue minus the taxes on the sale
(IPI, ISS, PIS, COFINS, among others) and discounts and rebates granted.
NET SERVICE REVENUE
Represents the net operational revenue plus other operational revenues.
NEW MARKET
Special BM&F Bovespa listing.
OPERATION LICENSE(LO)
Authorizes the operation of the activity or endeavor, after previous mandatory surveillance for verification of the effective
fulfillment of what is present in the previous licenses, such as environmental control measures and conditioners that may be
determined for the operation. It is granted with validity times of four or six years and is, thus, subject to periodic revalidation. The
LO is cancellable, as long as the situation foreseen in the legal regulations is verified. It is granted by COPAM.
OUTPUT
Is the volume of water that goes through a given section of a conduit at a time unit. Usually given in liters per second (l/s), in cubic
meters per second (m3/s) or in cubic meters per hour (m3/h).
PRESERVATION
Is making natural resources and the environment untouchable, preserving them for the enjoyment of future generations. Must not be mistaken for “protection” and “conservation”, which allow for the rational use and advantage.
PREVIMINAS
Minas Gerais Security Foundation, an entity that manages the complementary retirement plan of Copasa employees.
PREVIOUS GRANT
Modality of grant of a facultative nature that has as its goal to inform about the water availability for the implementation of any
kind of endeavor, especially projects with a long implementation period, mandatory when dealing with the construction of dams/
reservoirs. The previous grant does not give to its title holder the right of use for hydric resources.
PREVIOUS LICENSE(LP)
Granted at the preliminary planning stage of the endeavor or activity, being approved through the mandatory previous surveillance
to the place, the location and conception of the endeavor, as well as verifying the environmental viability and establishing the
basic requirements and conditioners to be met at the next stages of its implementation. Granted by COPAM and with a validity of
up to 4 years.
PRIMARY TREATMENT
Are the unitary processes employed to remove a high percentage of suspended solids and floating solids, but little to no percentage
of colloidal or dissolved substances. Includes suppression, grating and primary decantation.
PROGRAM CONTRACT
Instrument through which must be constituted and regulated the obligations that an entity of the Federation, including its indirect administration has with other entity of the Federation, or with the public consortium, in the scope of the rendering of public
services through federative cooperation.
PROGRAM CAÇA ESGOTO
Program developed in the Belo Horizonte Metropolitan Region. It has as its goals to identify and correct the undue dumping of sewage, linking them with the existing sanitary sewage system.
PUBLIC WATER SUPPLY SYSTEM
Is the set of works, facilities and services, destined to produce and distribute potable water to a community, in an amount and
quality compatible with the needs of the population, for domestic consumption, public service, industrial consumption and other
uses. Destined to improving the Public Health conditions, both physically, through the elimination of water-borne diseases, and
socially, through the improvement of the comfort conditions in obtaining and using water.
RAW WATER
Water in its natural form as available in rivers, creeks, lakes, lagoons, dikes or aquifers, that is, before going through any treatment process.
RESERVOIR
Location where the water is accumulated to serve the multiple human needs, generally formed by the construction of dams in the
rivers or by the diversion of water to depressions in the terrain or built as part of water supply systems, before or after treatment
stations (FEEMA, 1990).
RIGHT OF USE OF HYDRIC RESOURCES
Right that the law ensures to title-holders of the grant for the use of water as per its destination to be satisfied.
RIPARIAN VEGETATION
Is the vegetation that borders water courses or that goes around lakes, springs and dikes, located in humid or even soaked soils and
subject to periodical flooding. Those are considered to be permanent preservation areas, allowing for the conservation of typical
flora and fauna and that act in the regulation of water and sediment flows, in the maintenance of the water quality and, through
the root system and through the top of all the plants, constitute the most efficient protection of the soils they coat.
SANITARY SEWAGE
Set of works and facilities destined to the collection, transportation, removal, treatment and final disposal of residual waters of the
community, in a sanitarily adequate fashion.
SANITATION LAW
Law no. 11,445, of January 5th, 2007. A law that establishes the national directives for basic sanitation and for the federal basic
sanitation policy.
SECONDARY TREATMENT
Are unitary processes destined to removing or reducing colloidal or dissolved substances, obtaining as the consequence the stabilizing of
organic matter through biological oxidizing. “It is projected, mainly, to reduce suspended solids and DBO”.
SEDRU
State Secretary for Development of Urban Policies of the State of Minas Gerais – It has as its main goal to reduce inequalities
in regions and cities, through the execution of public policies and programs for territorial integration and regional and urban
development. Government Secretary to which Copasa is linked.
SERVICE INDEX
Population serviced in relation to the population residing in the locations operated.
SLURRY
Solid part resulting from the sewage treatment process.
SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY
Responsibility of an organization for the impacts of its decisions and activities on society and on the environment, through an
ethical and transparent behavior that contributes for the sustainable development, including the health and well-being of the
society; takes into account the expectations of the interested parties; is compliant with the applicable legislation and consistent
with international behavior norms; is integrated in all of the organization and is practiced in its relations (ISO 26000).
SOLID RESIDUES
Are heterogeneous materials, resulting from human activities, denominated garbage, being organic, especially vegetable and animal
residues, and inorganic such as glass,, papers, plastics, polymers, metals, etc., which may be partially reused, recycled or remanufactured, generating, among other aspects, protection to public health and economy of natural resources. The solid residues are almost fully
transported to landfills and constitute a serious aesthetic, economic and, especially, sanitary problems, and there is always a risk of
pollution of underground and surface hydric resources.
STATE DOMAIN WATERS
They belong to the State for surface waters that spring and debouch within the same state (at sea or as an affluent of a federal river)and for all underground waters.
STATIC SEWAGE SYSTEM
Sanitary sewage treatment system, individual, built so as to ensure the adequate final disposition of the waste, and that requires
regular cleaning of the slurry so as not to deteriorate the quality of the effluent.
SUSTAINABILITY
Is the way companies decide to do business, taking into consideration people, profit and planet. Managing a company in a
sustainable fashion ensures long-term business success, creates a healthy and productive internal environment, approximates and
develops the community around it, contributes for a better society, intensifies relations with clients, providers and shareholders
and preserves resources.
TERTIARY TREATMENT
Unitary operations that are developed after the secondary treatment, aiming at the improvement of the quality of the effluent, for instance, disinfection, removal of phosphates and other substances.
TOTAL OPERATIONAL COSTS AND EXPENSES
Costs of the Services Rendered + Administrative Expenses + Commercial Expenses + Other Operational Expenses.
TREATMENT OF THE SANITARY SEWAGE
Combination of physical, chemical and biological processes aiming at reducing the organic load existing in the sanitary sewage
before releasing it in bodies of water, such as: biological filter; activated slurry; anaerobe reactor; oxidizing ditch; anaerobe lagoon;
aerobe lagoon; airy lagoon; facultative lagoon; mixed lagoon; maturation lagoon; septic cesspool of the condominium system.
(National Basic Sanitation Research, 2000).
UNDERGROUND WATERS
Is water that infiltrates in the ground and penetrates, through gravity, deep layers of the underground reaching the saturation
zone level, constituting an underground water (aquifer) reservoir, susceptible of extraction and usage. The saturated zone can be
considered as being a single reservoir or a natural reservoir system whose capacity and total volume of pores or interstices are full
of water.
USER ECONOMY OR UNIT
Estate or part of an estate that is the object of independent occupation or set of estates perfectly identifiable or in a situation that
is liable to verification or common use areas that are the responsibility of the condominium, the administration or the proprietor,
that, in an isolated or grouped fashion, uses public water supply and sanitary sewage services through single connections.
VOLUME GRANTED
Volume unavailable for new grants due to grants already made in the hydric body itself, or in others located upstream. They must always be equal to or under the grantable volume
WATER CAPTURE
Set of structures and devices built or set up by a spring, to provide for a public water supply system destined to human consumption.
WATER NOT CONVERTED INTO REVENUE(ANCR)
Difference between the volume distributed and the volume effectively consumed divided by the average amount of connections in the period.
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