Xylem Watermark & Project 24 : Guaduas Puerto Bogotá, Colombia.
Xylem Watermark supported Planet Water Foundation and Project 24 which will bring clean water to thousands of people across five countries including Cambodia, Colombia, India, Indonesia, and the Philippines in 24 hours Xylem Watermark sponsored 6 projects as part of Planet Water Foundation’s Project 24, an ambitious undertaking on World Water Day, to build 24 clean water filtration systems (AquaTowers) in 24 communities across five countries; Cambodia, India, Indonesia, Philippines, and Colombia – in just 24 hours.
These projects reached a total of 6,000 people including the 2,739 children who attend the participating schools.
27 Xylem volunteers assisted in the construction of the community-based water systems, which will bring clean water to the world’s most disadvantaged communities.
Project 24: Guaduas Puerto Bogotá, Colombia Puerto Bogotá Village, located near the regions of Cundinamarca and Tolima, is home to nearly 4,000 people who earn a living through trade, raising livestock, and fishing.
The Magdalena River, which is the principal river of Colombia, is used by the local community for fishing, and sometimes, for consumption.
The main access to water for the local community and the school comes from a deep well that supplies water to an elevated water tank, but the water is not treated and is currently unsafe to drink.
People believe that because the village is so close to the Magdalena River, Puerto Bogota has good quality of water.
Every day he also has mothers and elderly women asking him to sell them water on credit so that they can prepare food with clean water.
As a result of the Project 24 AquaTower, this village now has access to clean drinking water for the first time.