Report: Boqueron K'asa Gravity-fed Water Project

This project will provide safe drinking water and hygiene education to the 505 residents of the community of Boqueron K'asa, located in the valleys of central Bolivia.

The maintenance costs include a plumber's monthly salary ($40) and a reserve for spare parts. A tariff will be assessed with the full partipation of the community to cover spare parts, cleaning materials, and the salary of the plumber.

There will be a lot of emphasis on financial management training and sanitation-generation, with the idea that money from the water tariff will not only cover the cost of cleaning supplies, spares, and a plumber's salary, but that the community will be able to save money for a sanitation project.

1. Water For People, LEMAG, and the communities need to have a clear policy for ensuring the local government's contribution is received timely. Delays in receiving the government's contribution delayed the project.

2. Carry out workshops on the importance of the depth of the trenches; also make practices digging trenches and use models to make people have anawareness of the importance of the trenches’ depth. Also, in the future, during the survey identify the rocky areas to avoid problems with the digging later.