What are the major environmental problems facing El Salvador?
The environment continues to deteriorate due to the military confrontation and the lack of information regarding environmental issues. People are more worried about the military confrontation, and therefore the environmental situation is of lower concern. An example of the crisis is the situation with water. In our country we are running out of water. Every day, everywhere, water is available only for a few hours. For example, in the CESTA office in the capital city the water is turned on at 5 a.m. and gets turned off between 8 and 9 p.m. The decrease in availability of water has mainly been due to deforestation. Running water does not have the chance to return to the water table because the forest cover has been destroyed. It is estimated that the water table in El Salvador is going down by one metre per year. You find pollution just about everywhere. This includes chemicals dumped by factories and water sewerage from the cities. This water gets into lakes and systems were people fish
