Since many years ago, Chile has made several efforts and reforms to provide drinking water for domestic uses, and has become a success story and example for urban settings in Latin America. Although the coverage of drinking ...

From Federal Law 11.445 / 2007, the concern with basic sanitation for rural areas have taken on large proportions within the sector, due to their strategic importance with regard to sustainable rural development and issues ...

Basic sanitation is totally linked to quality of life through the treatment of domestic water and sewage, as well as solid waste management. In rural areas, there is a major deficiency in terms of sanitation, which can ...

In rural areas, including rural schools, the water intended for human consumption may not have quality, due to problems in their capture and storage, leaving the rural population in the mercy of contamination and diseases ...

Examina en forma critica la conducta reciente del sector en el contexto de las metas de la "Decada Internacional", otorgando especial atencion a las necesidades de las poblaciones pobres rurales y suburbanas.

This paper presents an institutional analysis of the underlying factors affecting the performance of drinking-water community organizations in rural areas of Costa Rica. These organizations provide water to more than 60 ...