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The Municipality of Guatemala City created the Municipal Water Company (Empresa Municipal de Agua) (EMPAGUA) in 1972 to manage Guatemala City’s sewage and water services. Today it is the largest municipal water provider in the country. [13] XELAGUA manages the water supplies in Quetzaltenango, Guatemala’s second largest city. [8]
In 2015, in Costa Rica, 98% of the population had access to "improved" water, 99.5% and 92%, in urban and rural areas, respectively. In 2015, there were still around 111 thousand people lacking access to "improved" water. Regarding sanitation, in 2015, around 274 thousand people did not have access to "improved" sanitation.
With an average width of 120 km, Costa Rica receives about 170 km 3 from rain and about 75 km 3 finds its way into the rivers and lakes of Costa Rica and yet another 37 km 3 ends up in underground aquifers. The remaining water is lost through evaporation and evapotranspiration. [3] Costa Rica is divided into three major slopes or basins.
Guatemala City: 0.792 1 Guatemala: 0.719 2 Sacatepéquez: 0.706 Medium human development 3 El Progreso: 0.681 4 Santa Rosa: 0.655 5 Quetzaltenango: 0.653 6 Escuintla: 0.650 7 Zacapa: 0.650 8 Retalhuleu: 0.650 9 Jutiapa: 0.650 10 Solola: 0.648 11 Chimaltenango: 0.646 12 Suchitepéquez: 0.635 Guatemala (average) 0.634; 13 Baja Verapaz: 0.631 14 ...
(1) Worldwide ranking among countries evaluated. See notes (3) and (4) also (2) Ranking among the 20 Latin American countries (Puerto Rico is not included). (3) Ranking among 108 developing countries with available data only.
Costa Rica shares a 313-kilometre (194-mile) border with Nicaragua to the north, and a 348-km border with Panama to the south. Costa Rica claims an exclusive economic zone of 574,725 km 2 (221,903 sq mi) with 200 nautical miles (370.4 km; 230.2 mi) and a territorial sea of 12 nautical miles (22.2 km; 13.8 mi). Land use: Arable land: 4.8%.
List of volcanoes in Costa Rica, which includes the crater lakes listed.; Haberyan, K.A.; Horn, S.P. (1999). "Chemical and physical characteristics of seven volcanic lakes in Costa Rica".
"Descripción de Lagunas Costeras de Guatemala" (PDF). Lagunas costeras de Centroamérica. OIRSA. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-07-27; USACE (June 2000). "Water Resources Assessment of Guatemala" (PDF). US Army Corps of Engineers. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2009-01-09; USACE (June 2000).