Xylem Watermark & Project 24 : Guaduas Puerto Bogotá, Colombia
Xylem Watermark supported Planet Water Foundation and Project 24 which will bring clean water to thousands of people across five countries including Cambodia, Colombia, India, Indonesia, and the Philippines in 24 hours
As featured on planet-water.org
Project 24: Guaduas Puerto Bogotá, Colombia
Puerto Bogotá Village, located near the regions of Cundinamarca and Tolima, is home to nearly 4,000 people who earn a living through trade, raising livestock, and fishing. The Magdalena River, which is the principal river of Colombia, is used by the local community for fishing, and sometimes, for consumption. The main access to water for the local community and the school comes from a deep well that supplies water to an elevated water tank, but the water is not treated and is currently unsafe to drink.
People believe that because the village is so close to the Magdalena River, Puerto Bogota has good quality of water. However, Manuel Pachón, a local business owner, explained that he sees the local community members spending a lot of money on purchasing water for consumption. Every day he also has mothers and elderly women asking him to sell them water on credit so that they can prepare food with clean water. In the past, the local villagers came down to the river in order to collect water to take home and boil in efforts to make it safe for consumption.
As a result of the Project 24 AquaTower, this village now has access to clean drinking water for the first time.
