Usage Note
Saneamiento covers both physical sanitation (sewerage, water treatment) and financial or institutional clean-up (saneamiento financiero = 'financial restructuring'). The verb is sanear. It is masculine, following the -miento pattern of action nouns. In development contexts it appears in phrases like saneamiento básico ('basic sanitation').
Examples
"El gobierno invirtió en saneamiento del agua potable."
Natural Translation
The government invested in drinking-water sanitation.
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