Given the recent publication of the Comptroller General of the Republic (CGR) on the degree of implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG), the National Development Plan 2030 and other instruments that are related to the drinking water and adequate sanitation sector , make an urgent call for political will to assume responsibilities and increase efforts to guarantee said services throughout the country.
The pronouncement states that The State, as guarantor of the rights to water and sanitation, must promote and execute concrete actions to maintain the levels of coverage achieved and to advance with the development objectives, assumed both nationally and internationally.
In that sense, since the Citizen Observatory for Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (OCASH), celebrate the fact that the country’s main control body has specifically addressed the level of compliance with SDG 6. “Guarantee the availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all”, under the principle of “Leave no one behind”.
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urge take immediate action, taking into account that the observations in the report on inaction, poor management, as well as the lack of instruments, with direct repercussions In: inadequate water rates, water consumption without certainty of quality, indiscriminate use of the resource and other arbitrariness in the management of services, show that the same problems identified more than 10 years ago continue to be the main barriers to guarantee a service universal and quality in our country.
They further stated that 68% of the market share of drinking water service providers is being operated irregularly. In this regard, they point out that the management of ERSSAN allowed more than half of the users of the drinking water service provided by the Sanitation Boards to consume water without certainty of quality.
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“We commit efforts, through our role as observers and citizen comptrollers, to continue accompanying this and other control exercises to make visible the existing gaps in the fulfillment of said rights,” they add.
