El Salvador’s government is making sanitation a national priority and increasing coverage throughout the country, national aqueduct and sewerage authority Anda sanitation department director Rubén Alemán told BNamericas. The country committed itself to improve sanitation when it signed the Cali declaration at the 2007 Latinosan conference.
Anda is working to improve access to sanitation through:
- pilot programmes to build wastewater treatment plants in rural areas, and
- a feasibility study for two large wastewater treatment plants for the capital San Salvador
The approval of a national potable water and sanitation law to regulate state entities and service providers, will have to wait until after the forthcoming presidential elections.
Read more: BNamericas [subscription site], 3 Apr 2008
Web site: Wikipedia: Water supply and sanitation in El Salvador
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