Clean Water for Rural Honduras

EcoLogic’s Provide Safe Drinking Water in Rural Honduras project in northern Honduras has been selected as the Energy Globe winner for Honduras in the National award category! With than 160 nations participating and 1,000 project entries annually, the Energy Globe Award is among the world’s most prestigious environmental prizes. It distinguishes projects with a focus on energy efficiency, renewable energy, conservation of our natural resources, or counteracting climate change.

EcoLogic and our local partner, the Water Committees of Pico Bonito National Park’s Southern Sector (AJAASSPIB), have been collaborating on reforestation and water conservation efforts in the Pico Bonito region of Honduras for more than 10 years. EcoLogic and AJAASSPIB work to improve and protect water and other natural resources in an area that has long suffered from inadequate water supply and environmental degradation from unsustainable agricultural practices.

“I felt like we were working alone, but now we have global organizations behind us,” Carlos Duarte Euraque, EcoLogic’s Program Officer for Honduras, said about the award. “This support will help us stop the degradation of our natural resources and ensure that our community has water in the future.”

With the help of supporters like you, AJAASSPIB has also reforested more than 120 hectares of land with native tree species. It has grown from four (numbers under 10 spelled out) to 27 water committees and serves as a learning model for more than 80 communities across the northern coast of the country. To improve household water quality, AJAASSPIB has initiated a project to purify water by chlorination. As a result, households in five of AJAASSPIB’s communities can now drink water directly from their faucets, something that was unthinkable a few years ago.

Thank you for your support in helping to provide safe drinking water to rural Honduras. We hope you will consider continuing to support these efforts!