FPSC works along with APED, with OFIF funding, in eight rural communities in Bolivia for the improvement of access to water. This well-advanced project has provided with household drinking water services of 6 out of 8 communities. 7 out of them have already formed water committees with legal personality to be able to have an efficient and sustainable management of already installed drinking water systems.
Thus this project not only enables the access to water to the population but also it has a positive impact on health abating severe gastrointestinal infections caused by contaminated water consumption. In the same way, civil society is reinforced, as being equipped with self-management skills, as well as the project sustainability impacting positively on socio-economic development in the area.
The main made-infrastructures have been the wells drilling, the water storing tanks, the water treatment plants, the piping network and household water supplies. The new drinking water facilities in the houses have led rural families to move to the urban areas. These families were living previously in huts next to their yields. Likewise other social services are taking hold like medical brigades, new classrooms and regular public transportation services. The shortage of drinking water was an obstacle to the community growth. These improvements have brought better and efficient services which currently receive greater attention from the authorities.