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Improving water resilience through amunas in Quilcamachay-Vicas

Together with The Coca-Cola Company, through its international funding program The Coca-Cola Foundation International Donation, we will implement the project Improving water resilience through Amunas in the Santa Eulalia sub-basin. With the project we will contribute to increase the water resilience of the Quilcamachay-Vicas Rural Community, as well as the population of Lima and Callao, by recharging local aquifers. This effort will contribute to increase the availability of water in the community for the development of its economic activities, and will contribute to increase the availability of drinking water in the city.

 

The project includes the rehabilitation of 8.25 km distributed in the Palación-Quilcamachay and Pacrayoko-Puquiobarroso amunas. It is important to note that the project revalues the ancestral knowledge of the population, complementing it with modern engineering techniques. In addition, it promotes capacity building of the community members and their involvement in the operation and maintenance of the amunas.

Year: 2024

Location: Quilcamachay-Vicas Rural Community (Huarochirí, Lima)

Improving water resilience through amunas in Quilcamachay-Vicas

Our objective

Improve water resilience by developing and strengthening knowledge and capacities to cope with the impacts of climate change through the rehabilitation of amunas.

We did it! These were the goals achieved!

Meta 1

1,429,725.00 m3 of water potentially infiltrated per year, an equivalent volume to supply the annual domestic consumption of drinking water for 22,383 Peruvians.

Meta 2

8.25 km of rehabilitated amuna.

Meta 3

Sensitized community members and citizens.

Meta 4

1000 ha of conserved ecosystem that provides the ecosystemic service of water regulation.

We contribute to the SDGs

Hambre cero-2
Agua limpia y saneamiento-6
Acción por el clima-13
Vida de ecosistemas terrestres-15
Alianzas para lograr los objetivos-17

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