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Water supply and sanitation coverage in Honduras has increased in recent decades but quality remains poor, particularly in rural areas. In 2003, a new law decentralized services from the national utility to municipalities and created new regulatory agencies, but implementation has been slow. In 2015, 91% of Hondurans had access to improved water sources, though coverage was lower in rural areas. Service quality is low compared to other Latin American countries, with most water systems intermittent and much wastewater untreated.

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Water Pollution

Water supply and sanitation coverage in Honduras has increased in recent decades but quality remains poor, particularly in rural areas. In 2003, a new law decentralized services from the national utility to municipalities and created new regulatory agencies, but implementation has been slow. In 2015, 91% of Hondurans had access to improved water sources, though coverage was lower in rural areas. Service quality is low compared to other Latin American countries, with most water systems intermittent and much wastewater untreated.

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Water

pollution
Water supply in cities of Honduras
Drinking water supply and sanitation coverage in
Honduras has increased significantly in the last
decades. However, the sector is still characterized by
poor service quality and poor efficiency in many places.
Coverage gaps still remain, particularly in rural areas.
In 2003, a new framework law for water supply and
sanitation was passed. It includes service
decentralization from the national utility, SANAA, to the
municipalities. It also creates a policy council and a
regulatory agency. Nevertheless, the new institutions
remain weak and the process of decentralization has
been slow. Furthermore, there is no policy of sector
financing,

To access
In 2015, 91% of the total population had access to
"improved" water, 97% and 84%, in urban and rural
areas, respectively. Leaving out 738 thousand people.
Regarding sanitation, 83% of the total population had
access to improved sanitation 87% and 78%, in urban
and rural areas, respectively. Excluding around 1.5
million people.
Data about access to water supply and sanitation in
Honduras vary depending on the source of information.
For example, according to a survey in 2006, 81% of
houses had access to an improved water source and
86% had access to sanitation. The sanitation figures
are much higher than the 2010 information from the
WHO Joint Monitoring Programmed for Water Supply
and Sanitation shown in the following table

Service quality
The service quality in Honduras is low compared to
other countries in Latin America. In 2006, 75% of the
drinking water in urban areas was disinfected and 10%
of collected wastewater received treatment. In rural
areas, it was estimated that one-third of the systems
provided continual service and less than 14% of the
systems delivered disinfected water in 2004.
According to the WHO, in 2000 98% of Honduran
water systems provided water on an intermittent basis,
for an average duration of 6 hours a day. In 51% of
urban water systems was drinking water disinfected,
and only 3% of collected wastewater was treated.

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