choquechampi water reservoir 2010
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Showing the process for the construction of Mano a Mano's agricultural water reservoir in Choquechampi, Bolivia.TRANSCRIPT
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Choquechampi Water Reservoir
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Choquechampi
• Choquechampi is a small rural community located 30 miles south of Mano a Mano-Nuevo Mundo’s headquarters in Cochabamba
• Families generally own 1-2 acre plots of land to raise crops and a few animals
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Choquechampi
Having lunch at the home of a community leader
Choquechampi
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“Without Water We Have Nothing”
• The area has 2 seasons – a rainy and dry. Rain falls everyday for 3-4 months but the rest of the year there is none.
• The reservoir is designed to capture the excess water during the rainy season for use during the year for irrigating crops, watering livestock and household use.
• Difference in crop size when there is water available (corn on left received water; corn on right did not)
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Reservoir Design
• The design essentially is building a levee to create a natural ravine with the surrounding mountains, which captures rainwater and snowmelt
• Over 1,000 loads of 12 cubic-yards of fill material was compacted to make the earthen levee
Dumping dirt into the ravine (left); the mounds of dirt are each 12 cubic yards of fill material (bottom photo)
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Community participation• During the planning stage, more than
300 community residents attended public meetings that included Mano a Mano representatives from both the US and Bolivia, government officials from the municipality of Sacaba, and Choquechampi residents.
• They voted strongly in favor to construct the reservoir and agreed to contribute 8-10 volunteer laborers every day for the duration of the project
• Mano a Mano provided majority of funding, skilled labor, and heavy equipment
• Local municipality provided partial funding
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Community ParticipationResidents contributed 32,000+ volunteer hours to the project!
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Reservoir completed and dedicated June 2010
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Reservoir completed and dedicated June 2010
• Supporters from the US, Choquechampi residents, Mano a Mano staff, and Municipality officials took part in the dedication ceremony to celebrate the completion of a true collaborative effort
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Results
• When full, the reservoir can hold 700,000 cubic meters of water
• 1,600 acres of land can be irrigated
• 4,800 people benefit from the project
• With access to water, crop harvests double or triple, which in turn doubles or triples most families income
Here the reservoir is only at 1-2% of total capacity, yet residents were still overjoyed, saying there’s already enough for their fields