Three years into the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) era, the Latin America and 
Caribbean (LAC) region is “on track to achieve universal access by 2030,” according to the 2018 UN SDG6 Synthesis Report 2018 on Water and Sanitation.
However, important challenges remain to reach SDG6 in LAC. Safe water and sanitation coverage levels are currently below the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) targets of achieving improved coverage levels. The statistical (coverage) or administrative information that LAC countries currently access fails to capture the new attributes of the SDGs, especially relating to the quality of services, wastewater treatment, and the adoption of hygiene practices, including hand washing. Moreover, the institutional arrangements along with diminishing sector investments cannot be adequately programmed with the type of information currently available.
poverty, resulting in higher number of poor people than before. More specifically, Africa’s urban population is expected 
and affordable drinking water” by 2030, which is quite different from access to an “improved” water source, which has been our primary focus with the 
Netherlands for the World Bank 
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