The Ministry for Sustainable Development of the State of Morelos has designed a strategy for the integrated management of wastewater treatment and solid waste (Estrategia de Gestidn Integral de Residuos Solidos, GIRSEM) through which it put in place wastewater treatment policies. Over 133 000 additional people now benefit from sanitary sewerage services, which represents a sewerage system covering 96% of the state's total population (INEGI, 2015c). Currently there are 43 in working condition.