By Stephanie Miller | Business Development Writer
Water For People-Honduras continues to facilitate water programming to progress toward full coverage in the municipalities of San Antonio de Cortés and El Negrito. A highlight of this programming is the recently completed 17 Communities Water System in San Antonio, which is designed to bring drinking water to more than 4,000 people in 17 communities. Hondurans residing within these communities have begun to pay for their water service. Water users pay their local community water committee, who then pay into a central water committee that represents the entire system. These funds will be utilized to maintain the principal conduction line and secondary pipeline branches.
Another important part of the sustainability of the 17 Communities Water System is the protection of the micro-watershed that provides water to these communities. To support the protection of this area, community members have included a percentage in their tariff designated to developing activities to protect the micro-watershed. The communities are also working with an NGO, Corazon Para Honduras, to obtain a grant that will be utilized to purchase a portion of the land in the micro-watershed.
Excitingly, in September, water committees in San Antonio began to repay the 240 micro-loans that had been issued for sanitation construction during the prior nine months. To date, the water committees have deposited $3,500 into a savings account at Caja Rural Union y Exito (a local financial institution).
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