23% of the Child Population in Panama Lives Without Safe Water Management
The Convention on the Rights of the Child establishes that every child has the right to live in a safe and dignified environment, with access to basic water, sanitation and hygiene services.
Lack of water, sanitation, electricity and garbage collection affects children in the country, according to the report ‘Situation of Boys, Girls and Adolescents in Panama.’ 23% of the child population in Panama lives without access to safe water management. This includes 281,927 children and adolescents out of a total of 1,232,585, according to the report which uses data from the XII Population and Housing Census 2023. Goal 6 of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG), “Clean water and sanitation”, recognizes access to drinking water and sanitation as a fundamental human right, derived from the right to an adequate standard of living established in the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights.
