National household-cistern program delivered by community networks
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A standardized 16,000 litre roof-catchment cistern per family, built by locally trained masons with family labor and delivered through a civil-society network with federal funding. Covers drinking and cooking water through an 8-month dry season.
Semiarido, Northeast Brazil
SuccessASA (Articulacao Semiarido Brasileiro), a network of approximately 3,000 civil-society organizations · since 2003 · Region
The Programa Um Milhao de Cisternas (P1MC) has been building standardized 16,000 litre roof-catchment cisterns for families across the Brazilian Semiarido since 2003, delivered by the ASA network of about 3,000 civil-so…
Cisterns built by 20221,146,210cisterns
Diarrhea risk reduction (peer-reviewed)73percent
Brazilian federal funding channeled through the ASA civil-society network; current cost approx. R$5,000 to 6,000 per cistern · 3 sources