in May 2013. The first equipment for the construction of a sewage treatment plant arrived in November 2015, and the building was finished in 2016. Telephone and cable Internet services are offered by Vivo. At its foundation, it was attended by the company Companhia Telefônica Brasileira (Brazilian Telephone Company, known by the acronym CTB), and at the end of 1963, Octavio Moura Andrade and partners founded the Telefônica Águas de São Pedro Ltda. (Águas de São Pedro Telephone Ltd.), who started to lead the telephone industry in the municipality. In 1973, the company was acquired by Telecomunicações de São Paulo S/A (São Paulo Telecommunications S.A., known by the acronym TELESP), and became part of the South-Central Regional A5 (OA5) District of the company. After the privatization of the Brazilian state-owned telephone companies in 1998, Telefónica (now trading as Vivo) started to control the telephone services of the municipality. Health care In 2009 the municipality had four health care facilities, two private and two public (the Municipal First Aid Clinic and the Basic Health Unit Eurides de Lima "Dinho Barbosa"). The city also has outpatient care with medical care in basic specialties, dental care with a dentist, and access to services in the Sistema Único de Saúde (Unified Health System, known by the acronym SUS). In December 2009 Águas de São Pedro had sixteen doctors, four general practitioners, four nursing assistants, three nurses, two nursing technicians, two physiotherapists and eight people distributed in other categories, for a total of 39 health care professionals. Public safety The absence of murders for more than a decade is celebrated in Águas de São Pedro. Since its foundation, the municipality had recorded only one murder case, a double homicide on 17 August 1994, when Fátima Rinaldi Dante, 40 years old, and her granddaughter, Maria Virgínia Dante, 1year old, were shot dead. The case was never solved. The city has a third-class police station, and is patrolled by the 2nd group of the 3rd company of the 10th battalion of the Military Police of São Paulo State and the Municipal Civil Guard. Also, the city does not have a Fire Department station, being then attended by the one located in the neighboring city of São Pedro. Sister cities Cubatão, Brazil (1991) Molinaseca, Spain (2012) Notes and references Notes References Bibliography Further reading External links Council website Tourism website Populated places established in 1940 Municipalities in São