Location: Community Las Pampitas, municipality Aguilares

Local partner: CORDES (Asociación para la Cooperación y Desarrollo Comunal de El Salvador)

Justification: 60% of the population in the municipality do not have drinking water and 80% of those who do have, receive only bad quality water and only for a limited time, one or two hours daily. Those who do not have drinking water get it from wells without any water quality control.  Therefore the population needs to spent part of its already limited income to buy water for domestic and human consumption at high price (1$ per 0,23m³), reducing the poor economy of already empoverished families.

Objetives: Contribute to a reduction of poverty and social marginalization levels of the population in the municpality of Aguilares by ensuring a system of permanent quality drinking water supply. 

1. Improve and extend drinking water supply in the community Las Pampitas, municipality of Aguilares

Activities:

• Socialization of the project
• Hire construction firm
• Purchase and transport construction material
• Build storage tank
• Trenching and laying pipe distribution network for families
• Install of laterals, taps, cocks and family water meters
• Inauguration of water system
• Analysis for water quality control
• Socialization of rules of existing drinking water system
• Accompaniment and orientation visits to communities by CORDES
• General evaluation of project results
• Develop 50 training sessions (disinfection with solar energy, adequate water storage, environmental hygiene and gender equality)
• Two exchanges with two other water community boards in other communities

Beneficiary population: 163 families (815 inhabitants, 438 are women and 377 men) 

Duration of the project: 12 months

Budget and financing:  € 187.457,61€ (participates Gobierno de Navarra)