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dc.titleThe Need for a Sanitation Revolution in LAC: Conclusions from World Water Week
dc.contributor.authorSparkman, David
dc.contributor.authorSturzenegger, Germán
dc.contributor.orgunitWater and Sanitation Division
dc.coverageLatin America and the Caribbean
dc.date.available2018-05-11T00:00:00
dc.date.issue2018-05-11T00:00:00
dc.description.abstractSustainable Development Goal #6 (SDG6) set ambitious sanitation and wastewater treatment targets. Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) countries have committed to achieving them by 2030. Conventional, business-as-usual approaches will not achieve SDG6. The region must go through a sanitation revolution that will require not only creative and innovative ideas, but an overall revolution in thinking within the sector. It will also require the collaboration of all public and private stakeholders. This paper makes a case for that revolution, and how to best make it happen. As part of World Water Week 2017 (WWW), the IDB organized, in coordination with several partners, a set of four sessions (referred to as “Eye on LAC”) highlighting the challenges accompanying SDG6 targets for the region. This paper summarizes the discussions, findings and conclusions reached from those WWW sessions, and provides recommendations on strategies that will help LAC launch the sanitation revolution it needs, in order to meet SDG6 Targets 6.2 and 6.3 by 2030.
dc.format.extent35
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.18235/0001111
dc.identifier.urlhttps://publications.iadb.org/publications/english/document/The-Need-for-a-Sanitation-Revolution-in-LAC-Conclusions-from-World-Water-Week.pdf
dc.language.isoen
dc.mediumAdobe PDF
dc.publisherInter-American Development Bank
dc.subjectWastewater
dc.subjectSustainable Sanitation
dc.subject2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development
dc.subjectSewerage
dc.subject.jelcodeQ25 - Water
dc.typeTechnical Notes
idb.identifier.pubnumberTechnical Notes
idb.operationRG-T2982
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