El Salvador’s government is making sanitation a national priority and increasing coverage throughout the country, says national aqueduct and sewerage authority Anda sanitation department director Rubén Alemán. 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.

Related news: Latin America: LatinoSan 2007 Cali Declaration unites region toward sanitation targets, Source Weekly, 11 Dec 2007

Web site:

• Anda
• Wikipedia: Water supply and sanitation in El Salvador

Source:BNamericas [subscription site], 3 Apr 2008

Tags: policies & legislation, sanitation