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New Water Analysis Project
TERRA and Stanford University are teaming with a Bolivian University to test the water quality in 30 rural communities in August, 2009. Most drinking and irrigation water are not tested — communities and development oganizations believe that water from springs and wells is safe. This is not true. Without comprehensive testing, water development can cause major health problems, like toxic arsenic exposure and dysentery.
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New Community Water Project
In 2009, Terra is teaming with Water For People to develop vital community water resources in the empoverished, rural town of Pata Herra Cancha. Water For People is directingthe project, which will consist of constructing of a community wide, gravity‐fed water system that will distribute clean water to each household, protecting the community’s water source from contamination, and improving hygiene and sanitation through education. -
Terra Member Spotlight
The small thatched-roof adobe house blended almost seamlessly into the earthen-colored landscape. The panoramic view was breathtaking: rolling hills covered in a mosaic of newly-plowed fields unfurled to the west and south, Lake Titicaca to the north, and jagged, glaciated peaks loomed over the small house and extended as far as the eye could see to the east. The Bolivian Altiplano is like no place in the U.S.