An Overview of the Water Supply and Sanitation System at Metropolitan and Peri-Urban Level: the Case of Caracas.
Abstract
The metropolitan expansion of Caracas has given place to the conformation of the Caracas Metropolitan Region, composed by the Caracas city and its Peri-urban interface (PUI), which is formed by four discontinuous but functionally related segments. Within the PUI, the segment corresponding to Valles del Tuy Medio (PUI-Tuy) was selected for study since it is the one that presents a bigger growth related to the availability of lands and the housing and infrastructure works that are taking place in the area. Additionally, within the PUITuy the urban axis Charallave - Santa Teresa was chosen, since there the problems related to the objectives of this project are represented. The localities chosen for the study were Paso Real 2000-Charallave and Bachaquero-El Cartanal, where lower-income populations with severe problems of access to the Water and Sanitation Services (WSS) are concentrated.
The structure of the report is as follows:
Introduction
(1) Overview of the metropolitan region
(2) Profile of the peri-urban locality
(3) Characteristics and trends of the WSS
Conclusion
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Citation
Lacabana, M. An Overview of the Water Supply and Sanitation System at Metropolitan and Peri-Urban Level: the Case of Caracas. (2005)
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