On February 5, 2009, Senator
Silvano Aureoles Conejo, President of the Water Resources
Commission of the Senate, presented the Water and Sanitation Law
Initiative. The Law sets out institutional changes in the
management and operation of water supply and sanitation
The drinking water and sanitation sector has been characterised
by diversity and variation in public policies, in addition to a
wide heterogeneity of criteria and guidelines resulting from the
lack of a comprehensive framework for regulating and promoting
the development of services that directs the guidelines to
favour the appropriate drinking water supply, wastewater removal
and sanitation. There are particularly two fundamental causes of
the current situation. Firstly, the transfer of responsibilities
to municipal level formalised with the amendment of Article 115
of our Constitution...
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