The system of treated drinking water consists of more than 700 meters of tube of impulsion with 9 wells, three waterpumps and one distribution tank with 8 qubic meters of reservoir in an altitude of 10 meters.
The main distribution line consists of 2500 meters of tubes.
The individual conexion of the 150 households was financed by OIM.
The 150 families have got now access to more than 60 liters of drinking water per day and person, with an daily total of 54.000 liters.
The three waterpumps are working aproximately 3,6 hours per day and they are controlled by an automatic system to get advantage of the differnt wells. The microcompany of waterservice manages a system of hipoclorifcation with which they produce cheep clouro on the base of normal salt.
The system doesn´t need special maintainance, because it is totally automatic. The microcompany of service was formed and managed by comunity members to garantize the services ao long terms.
The black population of Pampanal lives of the capture and comercializing of seafood. The average monthly income of a family is about 30 US$.
It´s important that the comunity got their treated water system and public electrification. In former times they used an open pond, from which they had to carry their drinking water in canoa.
Inicially it was planned to use a solar system for pumping, but it was managed to be financed the public grid interconnection for diferent comunities.
