The National Service on Territorial Studies claimed in 2005 that 90 percent of the surface waters in El Salvador are highly polluted, not only bringing harm to the aquatic animal life but to the millions of inhabitants of El Salvador. Some towns in El Salvador have never had access to water and the people who live there are willing to walk kilometers through hills to fill buckets of drinkable water. And, moreover, the people who do count with access to water receive a service that does not work every day. Even though in 2016, El Salvador declared itself on state of emergency (orange alert) due to the climate change affecting the provisions of clean water, the National Water Company of El Salvador (ANDA), has been able to produce enough water for the population, yet, the lack of pipelines and administration has not been able to get this service available to everybody. This over production of water has costed an average of 78 million cubic meters of wasted water. El Salvador has two challenges to face to achieve environmental and human justice: to clean the surface waters of the country and to make it accessible to all the towns to avoid the waste of water. It is necessary that Governments make the cleansing of waters and its provision a fundamental policy in their agendas to bring social inclusion and justice to everybody. Author: Natalia Dimas, 25  

Смъртоносна жажда, Ел Салвадор

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