Andrea Florencia Gamarra Parodi,Silvana Alcoz, Dirección Nacional de Aguas, Agua Potable y Sanemiento, agamarraparodi@gmail.com
Summary
In Uruguay, a large proportion of the population, close to a million people, has no sewage systems, using static filtering systems with a range of associated problems, both technical as social, economic, and environmental, that need to address and improve comprehensive and interdisciplinary way. In this context it is essential to study and propose alternative solutions for sanitation and incorporate the vision of local actors, directly involved in the management of static systems of sanitation, especially local governments, which have assumed a major role especially with regard to management services of trucking sewage sludge, control disposal, for actions to be developed in the framework of the elaboration of the National Plan of Water and Sanitation Plan, which has emerged as the universal tool to address in the sector, following the guidelines established in the constitutional reform of Article 47as well as other institutional actors necessarily linked to the sector.
Keywords: Coverage, Sewerage systems, sanitation, universal.