The Objectives of Sustainable Development of Water and Sanitation in Latin America

Abstract

This chapter aims to analyze the possibilities and scenarios for the fulfillment of the Sustainable Development Goals of Water and Sanitation in Latin America. To this end, an analysis is made of the transition from the MDGs to the SDGs, and the challenge that the new qualitative principles impose in the water and sanitation indicators of the Sustainable Development goals represents for closing the gaps. Along these same lines, the first results obtained for some Latin American countries of the estimation of indicators 6.1, 6.2, and 6.3a are presented, as well as the information gaps derived from this exercise, accompanied by a proposal to generate/obtain information to have good quality indicators. Additionally, successful experiences of elimination of open defecation are analyzed as part of the sanitation ladder. As well as the inequities in the access to these services are discussed as part of the problem that revolves around the fulfillment of the SDGs, this being in turn one of the main causes of the breach of human rights to water and sanitation.