Phone: (+46) 771 10 26 10 Email: support@iver.se The objective of increasing the access to potable water in terms of quality and quantity in rural communities was accomplished by obtaining a decentralized rural potable water system for 351 families (2,106 people), as a local experience in the solution of conflicts related with water access and resources channeling.
These results were achieved through the formation of strengthened and legitimized local organizations implementing a micro basin management as recognition to the environmental service of the water and as a product of an environmental education process at all levels. It was possible to establish sustainable rural potable water management and administration system models with a comprehensive vision of the resource (economic, social and environmental vision).
El Cerrito community improved its quality of life by having access to potable water, electric energy, improving their access roads, and improving the health and education of their children. In the incidence processes, it was possible to link the local actors, social sectors and different water users in debate and incidence processes including proposals for the legal framework of the water sector at national level.