Water and Basic Sanitation in Latin America and the Caribbean

The subject of the Human Development Report 2006 is Water for Development. Without water and development, the human being stays without its main center. Water and sanitation allow sustaining a healthy life, therefore not only growth, but human development for life, to sustain the future. The Water and Development Global Committee in the report “Our Common Future” have promoted the concept of sustained development since 1987. Two years latter there were more than 60 definitions. Well furthermore and beyond, the diversity of concept, there is necessary idea: Sustained development starts with life itself, with its conservation to the longest time possible. One of the most important foundations for the f life condition improvements is analyzed, the access to water, now considered a basic right and fundamental for the continuations of a better quality of life, understood as a multi-factor process, but for first instance due to most crossed conditions of the people. Within the same topic, there have been changes in the Latin American and the Caribbean region. Even to consider that part of the road has been driven, obtaining more coverage scores in the urban zone. While the challenges are to increase the coverage in the rural zone and extent the access to potable water and sanity systems. Starting from a brief review of the access evaluation to potable water in the region, the urban-rural gap is remarked and native population conditions are remarked within illiterate, poverty and mortality.