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August 2008: The World Water Crisis

Water project funded by La Jolla Golden Triangle and Solana Beach Del Mar Rotary clubs According to the World Health Organization, 14,000 people a day die water related diseases. QBL is part of the world movement to provide clean safe water for every citizen on the planet. We are delivering water to Andean villages where child mortality rates are among the highest in all Latin America. There is water in the areas where QBL works. It just needs pipes or wells and pumps to bring it to the houses. It needs technical know-how and the funds to plan and install a system. Depending on the terrain and water source we can bring water to every house in a village for as little as $12,000 (£6,000). In some communities it costs only $250 (£125) to pipe water to a family - a permanent supply of clean safe water to a tap outside their house. QBL is currently planning water supplies for the villages of Chuchulaya and Collpacanta. This will make over 40 QBL community water supplies - and counting.

Click for more about plans for these 2 communities

"I'm 60 years old and QBL are the first people who've come to help our village."

Sivincani pump Rotary clubs in San Diego, Southern California have financed two QBL village drinking water projects. In May this year a group of 14 Rotarians went to Bolivia themselves and saw their projects and the water flowing. They went out to Sivincani on the icy Altiplano and saw the 26 pumps and wells in action. One family told them that before they had their pump they had walked for four hours every day of the year to fetch water in buckets. They even had to carry water for their sheep to drink. Now they have their own well and pump right outside their house.

Click here for more about the Sivincani project.

Pictures of the Bolivian People

One of the Gregorias weavers The Bolivian people have wonderful faces. Go to a photo album of these faces, and select "slide show" to meet some of the people QBL works with. The album is updated often as fresh faces come in - most recently in June 2008.

Click here, then select "slide show" in the album.