Honduras Hydrophilanthropy: Brisas de Rio Cuyamel Project Just About Finished

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Excellent news from my Honduran friend Rolando López: the villagers of Brisas de Rio Cuyamel at the foot of the Sierra de Omoa in northwest Honduras are almost finished with a gravity-flow water system for their village of of 20 families. The 5000-gallon ferroconcrete tank is now completed. A mason supervised the tank's construction. 

This project was funded by the Ann Campana Judge Foundation with the help of Rolando López and Alex Uriel del Cid. Without those two amazing men, there would have been no Brisas de Rio Cuyamel project.

Rolando sent the following pictures of the tank.

Close-up of the tank.
 

Here is Alex discussing water issues with two villagers.

 

"Choose the stone by the size of the frog." -- Honduran proverb

Comments

[Averill Strasser]

It looks like a great project. Water storage is a crucial element in most systems.

We have implemented the ferro-cement tank concept as well, with our Ferro-Cement Tanks for the Dominican Republic and Haiti Program. (Actually, I like your term "ferroconcrete" better, but I'm not going to change the title.)

We're just finishing the third tank in the Dominican Republic, and have trained a team of Haitians to go back to Haiti and build 8 more tanks in areas of need.

http://watercharity.org/node/167

Regards,

Averill