Compliance with Sustainable Development Goals (ODS), related to housing and water resources, applied to the Colinas de Pilar neighborhood, Paraguay

Abstract

In the Report presented by Paraguay to the United Nations Conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development, which was held in Quito, Ecuador, between October 17 and 20, 2016, known as Habitat III, on the topic of construction houses, neighborhoods and water necessary for human consumption, it is proposed: "guarantee sustainable access to drinking water". The United Nations Organization approved the 2030 Agenda on Sustainable Development, which has 17 general objectives, in 2015. The present work aims to evaluate the fulfillment of three of these objectives for sustainable development: health and well-being, clean water and sanitation, and sustainable cities and communities based on the realities that occur when putting up housing plots without proper planning of the neighborhood, taking the Colinas del Pilar neighborhood, which can be similar to other neighborhoods, in different contexts and cities in Paraguay, as a case study. The work is a descriptive research, interview techniques were used with inhabitants of the houses that make up the neighborhood and workers in shopping centers, important bibliographic sources on the subject were reviewed, images are shown and information about impacts caused in the last floods are referred By offering the final results that assesses the fulfillment of the proposed objectives, the type of fundamental source is defined and the conclusions make it clear that there are no mechanisms or tools for evaluating these objectives, it is identified that the main source of water for consumption, It comes from artesian wells located in each house, a technical infrastructure for this service is not guaranteed, impacts on health are denoted and one cannot speak of sustainability of the neighborhood.