Caribbean & Central America - May 2018 (ISSN 1741-4458)

Global climate change and local factors, such as deforestation, are posing an important threat to the availability and quality of water across the Central American region. Despite improvements over the last two decades, such as increased access to safe drinking water, there is a danger that more extreme weather (meaning more floods and droughts) will cause a water crisis. The first of our focus pieces in this May edition of Latin American Regional Report: Caribbean & Central America, considers this danger.

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