[Comments on the teaching of sanitary engineering in Latin America].

1 Published in Spanish in B&tin de la Oficina Sanikm%z Panamericana Vol. LXII, No. 6 (June 1967), pp. 531-537. 2 Consultant in Sanitary Engineering Education, PAHO/WHO, Zone II, Mexico City. future in view of the increasing needs in environmental sanitation. Manpower is the major factor in the success or failure of the national sanitation programs, for the financing problem has been largely overcome as a result of offers from national and intemational credit institutions. The sanitary engineer has been called the Robinson Crusoe of environmental sanitation, perhaps because the field of action of sanitary engineering is so broad. A mere look at the accompanying figure shows the diversity of problems to be faced by an engineer in just one of the representative branches of sanitary engineering-hydraulic