ABSTRACT
The path that this work proposes to go through involves observing the effectiveness of fundamental rights in Teresina, Piauí, Brazil, introducing basic sanitation as indicator and highlighting the minimum existential and a reserve of the possible as measures to identify the demands of the sector. Sustaining in the scarcity of financial resources that prevent the expansion of structures sanitary sewage, water supply, drainage of rainwater and solid waste collection, Teresina distanced itself from what is considered as the minimum existential in sanitation by the Law no. 11.445/2007. Reserve of the possible cannot be invoked when it affects human dignity. The documentary analysis used in this research revealed that the municipality does not comply with the Federal Constitution, because it does not offer conditions to avoid that the dignity of the human person is disregarded within the territorial limits.
Keywords:
basic sanitation; human dignity; minimum existential; reserve of the possible