El Salvador - Sanitation is a national priority in 2008

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.

Although sanitation has not been a priority in this country for many years, we are beginning to incorporate it in a nationwide policy,” he said.

“In 2008 we are getting ready to design a national sanitation agenda, based on the country report presented at the first Latin American Sanitation Conference [Latinosan] that took place in Cali, Colombia, in 2007,” he added.

A UN regional report presented at Latinosan found that only 81 of El Salvador’s 262 municipalities have sewerage systems. In addition, only 3% of the country’s wastewater is treated before being discharged into natural waters.

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