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Water Brigades designs and implements water systems in Central America to provide communities with limited access to clean water. They work with hundreds of student volunteers, engineers, and local partners each year to blueprint and construct large-scale water infrastructure. Once built, the systems are maintained through community water councils and sanitation committees established by Water Brigades to ensure long-term sustainability. Their current focus is Honduras, where over 700 annual volunteers work on water projects in under-resourced areas.

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Water Brigade

Water Brigades designs and implements water systems in Central America to provide communities with limited access to clean water. They work with hundreds of student volunteers, engineers, and local partners each year to blueprint and construct large-scale water infrastructure. Once built, the systems are maintained through community water councils and sanitation committees established by Water Brigades to ensure long-term sustainability. Their current focus is Honduras, where over 700 annual volunteers work on water projects in under-resourced areas.

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Water

Brigades designs and implements water systems to prevent

communicable illnesses in communities with limited access to clean water. Our current focus is in Central America where hundreds of student volunteers and engineers travel annually to implement our community- based water projects with our local partners. Our in-country team members work with water experts and community leaders to design large scale water systems for the entire community. Once the water system is blueprinted, volunteers work side-by-side with community members to implement and provide the education for maintenance through the creation of community water counsels and basic sanitation committees. Between brigades our in- country team insures that the water counsel and committee unction and have the necessary funding to perpetuate the longevity of the systems created.

Honduras is the current focus of Water Brigades, where more than

700 annual student volunteers and professionals travel to implement clean water systems in under resourced communities. Communities are selected on an extensive study based on need, access to clean water and include a collection of information to create baseline demographic information. Important Statistics about our Community Partners: Typical families have less than 3 gallons of water per day to use 80% of population have been infected with parasites this year Typically no doctors within a 20 mile radius Average family income is less than $1 a day

A one week Water Brigade provides volunteers with the


opportunity to make a tangible impact to improve water access and quality in under resourced communities while getting hands on experience in the field of engineering, sustainable development and remote water systems. The Brigade begins with an introduction to the underlying political, economic and geographical issues that hinder the communities from obtaining clean water. The group will travel to one of our predetermined villages to mobilize community members and either begin or finish construction on a segment of an on-going water project. The brigade also involves volunteer conducted educational workshops for familiesespecially childrenabout conservation of water usage and consumption, in the homes and the importance of water in terms of health and sanitation.

Choose your brigade dates

Program Contribution
Honduras $750 7 days, 6 nights 3 Meals per day Lodging In-country travel Brigade coordinators Project Supplies

Spring: Spring Break 2012 For more information Jane Lee janelee@email.arizona.edu Camille Sabino cmsabino@email.arizona.edu

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