Becoming Excellent
July 10, 2014
Community members can pick up safe water to meet all their daily water needs from a central distribution point.
“Many people are happy in our community because now we’re drinking safe water,” a community member, Emilio, said. He explained how now, with safe water access, the people of Brisas del Monga are more aware of the dangers of unsafe water. “Now we don’t drink raw water from the faucet because only water from the system is safe water.” The community of Brisas del Monga trusts the water from their safe water solution, especially after they received outside assurance that it was free of disease. “The health department came and did a water sample test,” Emilio recalled. “The result was 100% safe water.”
The community saw for themselves the difference in the water. The health of community members has changed drastically. Now water-related diseases have become a thing of the past. The community’s health has, in the words of one member, “become excellent.”
Safe water has changed the health of this community.
Another community member, Dilcia, sees the safe water as the greatest gift they have ever received. “Our community is really poor, but now we’re drinking safe water,” she happily told our staff. “Thank you for this great project. I hope that people from different places can get help like us!”
The impact of safe water has been so great that word of its benefits have spread to others nearby. “People come from far places to get safe water,” the system operator told us proudly, “because they know this water is good and we are very happy for it.”
It’s been several years since Water Missions International and the Pentair Foundation first joined forces to transform the lives of the people of Colon, Honduras, and we’re proud to continue this life saving work today in communities like Brisas del Monga. Safe water has the potential to forever change a community, eliminating water-related diseases.
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