Country Report El Salvador 1. Every day, thanks to some isolated efforts, general awareness of the environmental and ecological status of El Salvador is growing among people, organizations and government institutions. The current deterioration of the environment is negatively affecting the quality of the life of salvadoreans, as well as the growth capacity of the country and the socio-political stability of the society. Economy is also threatened, since erosion and the loss of quality of the soil are compromising seriously the productive capacities of our agricultural sector.
Water contamination reduce the capacity to produce and export from that sector.
More than 800f the natural vegetation has been totally eliminated. Less than 30f the original forest may be recognized as such. More than 770f the national soil is affected by erosion. One illustrative example is the threat of destruction of the 803 hectares forest called El Espino, due to economic forces and the negligence of the authorities. Solid waste is growing to such extent that in parts of the cities garbage is not picked up and both in the cities and in the country, waste accumulation sites are more frequent.