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The highest water use can be found in some utilities in Brazil and Argentina, where water resources are abundant and water use is almost 500 liter/capita/day. [10] The lowest water use is in Aguas de Illimani serving La Paz, the capital of Bolivia, with less than 50 liter/capita/day. In rural areas water use is sometimes even lower than this level.
This is a list of the different responsibilities in the water supply and sanitation sector in several Latin American and Caribbean countries.It includes the responsible institutions which set sector policies, agencies of economic regulation and service providers in urban and rural areas.
This list of water resources management by country provides information on the status of water resource management at a national level. List by country: Water resources management in Argentina; Water resources management in Brazil; Water resources management in Chile; Water resources management in Colombia; Water resources management in Costa Rica
The average duration of daily water service has increased from 15.36 hours in 1993 to 19.82 hours in 2003 at the national level. [2] In the four biggest cities of the country, service is continuous. Nevertheless, rationing of water and interrupted sanitation are ordinary incidents in small towns and rural areas. [20] Drinking water quality.
The water and sanitation regulatory system in Chile is considered by the WHO to be a model not only for Latin America, but also for Europe. [29] One of its innovative features is the use of a hypothetical efficient model enterprise to assist in determining if tariff increases requested by service providers are justified.
Some are multi-municipal, some serve a single municipality and others parts of a municipality. There are at least 990 mostly smaller cooperative service providers in Argentina, [27] making Argentina the country in Latin America where this form of service provision is most prevalent.
The most evident indicator of over-consumption and waste is the average municipal use of nearly 500 liters/person/day or about 182 m 3 per year [5] ranking Argentina near the top, along with Costa Rica, of municipal water use in Latin America. Total water use including industrial, agriculture, and municipal is 774 m 3 per person or about 4% of ...
According to data collected by the Pan-American Health Organization based on multi-purpose household surveys, the share of water expenditures in household expenditures in urban areas was the second-highest among 10 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean in the late 1990s. The share was on average 2.3% and 3.4% for households in the ...