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Also known as Companhia de Saneamento Básico do Estado de São Paulo

Sabesp is a Brazilian water and waste management company headquartered in São Paulo. It provides water and sewage services to residential, commercial and industrial users in São Paulo and in 363 of the 645 municipalities in São Paulo State, typically under 30-year concession contracts. It provides water to 26.7 million customers, or 60% of the population of the state. It is the largest water and waste management company in Latin América. It provides basic sanitation services, which include all phases (abstraction, treatment, processing, distribution) and the collection, treatment and reuse of

Key facts

Company.name
Companhia de Saneamento Básico do Estado de São Paulo S.A (Sabesp)
Company.logo
Sabesp.svg
Company.type
Sociedade Anônima
Company.traded_as
Ibovespa Component
Company.location
São Paulo, Brazil
Company.key_people
Edson de Oliveira Giriboni, (Chairman) Jerson Kelman, (CEO)
Company.num_employees
14,980
Company.revenue
US$ 4.4 billion (2017)
Company.net_income
US$ 754.3 million (2017)
Company.industry
Waste management
Company.products
WaterWaste services
Company.homepage
www.sabesp.com.br

via Wikipedia infobox

Company

Jurisdiction
BR
Headquarters
Sao Paulo, BR

via GLEIF

Wikidata facts

Instance of
public company
Country
Brazil
Headquarters
São Paulo
Industry
water supply
Legal form
S.A.
Official website
www.sabesp.com.br
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inception
1973-00-00
product or material produced
water
Commons category
Sabesp
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Encyclopedic overview

4 sections
Contents
  • Water leakage
  • Controversy During the 2014 Water Crisis
  • References
  • External links

Sabesp is a Brazilian water and waste management company headquartered in São Paulo. It provides water and sewage services to residential, commercial and industrial users in São Paulo and in 363 of the 645 municipalities in São Paulo State, typically under 30-year concession contracts. It provides water to 26.7 million customers, or 60% of the population of the state. It is the largest water and waste management company in Latin América. It provides basic sanitation services, which include all phases (abstraction, treatment, processing, distribution) and the collection, treatment and reuse of sewage. The São Paulo Metropolitan Region and the Regional Systems accounted for 74.5% and 25.5% of the sales and services rendered during the year ended December 31, 2004 respectively. Sabesp also supplies water on a bulk basis to municipalities in the São Paulo Metropolitan Area, in which it does not operate water systems to local operators.

In 2009 Sabesp had 15,103 employees for 7.12 million water connections, corresponding to 2.1 employees per 1,000 connections, indicating a high level of labor productivity.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Sabesp” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.