Environmental research

This project respond to a punctual intervention and specifies new requested by the beneficiaries of the community of Choroquetal afectadosp or the effects of drought in the dry Chaco region Cruz, after many community meetings and learn about successful experiences in alternative systems of avastecimiento of water in other regions of the South American Chaco (Paraguay) and the Bolivian Chaco (Villa Montes). Said that you drought in the Chacho, it is not a problem, it is a reality, in this perspective, the inhabitants of this area for many years have been developing different techniques of harvesting and storage of water, which has failed to meet the need for consumption and much less for process production, by the characteristics of dry periods of up to eight months and scarce rainfallby which until today are consuming water from the reservoirs together with livestock, which is reflected in the high index of gastrointestinal diseases with fatal consequences mainly for children. This reality of human conditions for other extreme which until today are living many communities in the region of el chaco as a community of Choroquetal is enough reason to justify this project posed an alternative integral improve conditions minimum habitability and health, integrated efforts among the municipality with the logistical support, the community with local material and labor contributionAmbio Chaco with skills in methods of harvest and storage of rainwater, with funding from UNDP, to improve their homes covered with tile and through this harvest rain water and stored in cisterns of ferrocement.

Bolivia