Clean Water for a Well Community - Colonia Segovia

With the loss of the Peace Corps involvement, we continue to explore what our future involvement with the community of Segovia might be. While rainy-season flooding and standing water are reported issues, we are working to get the communities "buy in" before tackling a project to address this need so that we may...

While we are continuing our planning for our future work in the community,  We have also been reflecting back on the amazing progress this community has made through the efforts the past years of EWB, other NGOs and missionaries, and, of course, the great people in Ocho de Octobre.  The community has completed...

Our planning for our future work in the community continues as we work to quantify the severity of rainy season flooding and it's disruptions to work and school attendance as well as quality of life in the community. Once the impact can be fully quantified, we will begin to gather topographic information and plan the storm...

We are excited to be continuing our progress on our second phase of improvements for this great community. Riding the wave of excitement with seeing the tremendous success the community has had in using and maintaining the potable  water system, we are moving on to phase two. Improving the poor drainage conditions will...

First of all, great results from our follow-up assessment: Colonia Segovia's water system is running smoothly and the community is doing a great job of maintaining the system.  The follow-up health survey has revealed that rash incidence in community has virtually disappeared and reports of diarrhea have decreased...

The project team is back safe and sound from a third trip to Segovia, Honduras at the end of June 2011.  We had a chance to inspect the water distribution system we constructed in March of 2010.  Our activities included testing the water quality and chlorination levels, checking tap flow rates, adjusting valves on...

The team is continuing planning for Phase 2 sanitation improvements.  We are researching several types of latrines including pit, pour flush, septic and composting.  Pour flush is the most probable option as a couple of families have pour flush latrines already installed. Our estimated travel date of...

The team is meeting to begin our Phase 2 project planning.  Now that the community has clean drinking water, we are going to focus on sanitation.  We are researching various types of latrines with pour flush the most probable option as a couple of families have pour flush latrines already installed. Our...

The pumping and distribution system continues to operate well and meet the needs of Colonia Segovia. Our local Peace Corps rep has been on the ground coordinating continuous improvement for the system, including the completion of a chlorinator. We are also happy to announce that he has elected to remain in country after...

We have completed our first implementation trip and are proud to announce that the five hundred residents of Colonia Segovia now have running water, right in their own backyards. This is due in no small part to the generosity of our donors, and the hard work of Chris Hickey, our local Peace Corps volunteer, Rhonda and...

With the political situation stabilized and the day to day operations of the Honduran government seemingly normalized, EWB-USA has lifted the travel restrictions to Honduras and the Segovia Project team has been gearing up for a quick return to the country. Design is complete, and the local government has been hard at work...