El Socorro Water Project
Every house in El Socorro is connected to the town’s water distribution system. This initial system was built several decades ago to service a far smaller community. Due to rapid expansion, the system cannot provide water to half of the community. Currently half the population of El Socorro has regular access to the drinking water from home. These residents get water every day in the summer and every other day in the winter due to an insufficient supply of water from the source they are currently using. The other, newer, half of the community receives water from their home system every 15 days in the summer and every three months in the winter. To supplement this meager supply, these residents purchase water from the nearest town, Siguatepeque. The is very expensive and a true burden on the community. Consequently all community members want an improved system to distribute and pump water to all community residents.
The proposed program is to build a new distribution system solely for the use of the population that does not get regular access, approximately 200 homes. In turn, this will then lessen the strain on the existing distribution system, so that the other half of the community will receive water on a daily basis. Water supply and distribution are the primary needs for El Socorro and is necessary to fulfill basic water demand for 100% of the population. The water system will pump from a local spring to a tank that will distribute water to the population that currently does not have regular access to water. The timeline on the project is approximately 1.5 years from Fall 2008.
The proposed program is to build a new distribution system solely for the use of the population that does not get regular access, approximately 200 homes. In turn, this will then lessen the strain on the existing distribution system, so that the other half of the community will receive water on a daily basis. Water supply and distribution are the primary needs for El Socorro and is necessary to fulfill basic water demand for 100% of the population. The water system will pump from a local spring to a tank that will distribute water to the population that currently does not have regular access to water. The timeline on the project is approximately 1.5 years from Fall 2008.