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UN HABITAT - Water and Sanitation in Latin American and The Caribbean
Abstract
Ensuring access to water and adequate sanitation
services is one of the most efficient ways to break the
poverty cycle. The Millennium Development Goals,
adopted by 189 countries in 2000, included the target
of halving by 2015 the number of people without
access to water suitable for human consumption and
adequate sanitation services. In order to comply with
the goal of halving the proportion of people without
drinking water supply services in the LAC Region,
access would have to be provided to over 120 million
persons.
Despite the efforts, the Latin American and Caribbean
region still shows a high level exclusion from
services. The rate of overcoming coverage problems
has diminished while the numbers of the socially
excluded have been growing in many countries.
There are serious deficiencies in access to services,
which disproportionately affect low-income groups,
improvements in access to sanitation is clearly behind
water, where most of the sector efforts and funds
have been focused during last years. The insufficient
coverage and poor quality of the sanitation and waste
water treatment services not only have negative
impacts on the health of the population but also affect
the environment, the economy and the availability of
water for other uses.
This publication presents the activities of the WatSan LAC Programme in the Region. The activities and the upcoming work is shown as well as all the institutions involved with the Programme.
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