T he development process needs to be analysed at different scales and in order to obtain a broad perspective about the situation and trends in Central America, a series of indices were defined taking into consideration the principal issues related with rural development in the region. Nevertheless the management and policies for some resources are still organised at the sectoral level. For this reason in the context of the project, besides the development of environmental and sustainability indicators at different scales and levels, another goal is to develop sectoral indicators.
Water is one case where the management of a resource is still sectoral.
The present document is a technical note that introduces the development and use of water indicators. A ccess is one of the major drivers in the development process. At this moment in time we don't know what these imapcts will be. The effects on the ground will be something we have to incorporate into our indictator product. The application and use of accessibility for policy-making and planning can been seen by viewing one concrete example.