ANÁLISIS DEL SERVICIO DE AGUA POTABLE EN AMÉRICA LATINA

Abstract

The accelerated growth of cities around the world has led to a process of urbanization of the population, from 45% of the urban population 50 years ago, to almost 75% of the urban population today. The needs of water generate a specific problem of extraction, accumulation, distribution and costing of the vital liquid, giving the possibility of studying this factor in the life environment of the citizens. The present work makes a review of the situation of the cost of production and distribution of water in some countries of the Latin region, as well as the quality of it and the sources from which the population is provided. By means of a correlational statistical study it presents results that indicate that the water in inadequate sources is more expensive and of lower quality proposing an increase in the coverage of the water by pipeline. The linear model obtained presents significant data and with the possibility of including additional factors in more complex models.