77 million people lack access to safe drinking water: The region has made great strides in
the recent decades. The percentage of people in Latin America and the Caribbean with water services
Drinking water has increased from 33 percent of the population in 1960 to 85 percent in 2000, which
which still leaves 77 million people without such service: 51 million in rural areas and 26 million
in urban areas.
Less than 14 percent of wastewater is treated
in sanitation plants, increasing the risk of long-term ecological damage, since these
water in the currents of rivers, lakes, underground aquifers and oceans.
Statistics up to the year 2000 show that people
poor paid between 1.5 and 2.8 times more for water than families with higher solvency; in terms
real, at a much higher percentage considering their economic income. The quality of the water
received was also lower, increasing the risk of diarrheal diseases, especially in infants.
Important aquifers in the western United States, Mexico, and North America.
South are threatened by overexploitation and pollution. In South America, 40 to 60 per
percent of the water used comes from aquifers that face increasing pollution produced
by residues from waste from mining and agricultural activities. In Mexico, the
Groundwater represents the main source of supply for 65 percent of the population. of the 653
aquifers in the nation 102 are overexploited.
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Many of the major lakes and river basins from the Americas
from North to South America are in great demand due to the increase in
population and pollution from industrial and agricultural activities, including
find the lakes in the United States and Lake Chapala in Mexico.
Unfortunately, the issue of water is still a topical issue.
taken from https://www.worldwatercouncil.org/
