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The National Environmental Sanitation Service (SENASA) is an agency under the Ministry of Public Health and Social Welfare (MSPBS) created by law 369/72, of December 1, 1972.
It develops various functions in environmental sanitation activities: planning, promotion, execution of works aimed at extending the provision of drinking water and sanitation. It has competition over towns of up to 10,000 inhabitants.
The National Environmental Sanitation Service may build water systems and basic sanitation services in indigenous settlements, peasants or other human conglomerates, with budgetary resources from national or international sources.