#rural-water-security
Issues, solutions, and case studies for rural-water-security
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Issues 1
#00176Small single-source communes run out of drinking water in drought
Villages supplied by one well or spring are the first to fail in drought. In summer 2022 more than 100 French communes had drinking water trucked in and over 1,000 took exceptional supply measures; some Pyrenées-Orientales villages later spent months on bottled water.
Solutions 1
#00195National household-cistern program delivered by community networks
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.
Case studies 1
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…
Brazilian federal funding channeled through the ASA civil-society network; current cost approx. R$5,000 to 6,000 per cistern · 3 sources