The National Forum recognizes the importance of gender to public policies on water. Participants include Representatives of the Peruvian State, governments, and international organizations. Rosa Gálvez-Cloutier, Canadian senator of Peruvian origin and renowned researcher, will discuss the role of education in promoting water conservation and gender equality. During the event, Ministers will recognize 20 women […]
Today is World Water Day – but in Peru, celebrations have been going on all week. Peru has transformed its water sector. Less than a decade ago, it was a country where water utilities were not allowed to invest in conserving watersheds upstream of their intakes. Now every utility nationwide sets aside a portion of […]
Traducido del español. El original está disponible en el sitio web de Actualidad Ambiental aquí. It was the same story again. In early 2007, as General Manager of the National Superintendence of Sanitation Services (SUNASS), I had to visit some public sanitation service companies that were in the process of updating their investment plans. Several […]
Piuray (Cusco) │ At Peru’s first National Water Summit, senior executives and general managers of 23 water utilities, representing 14 regions of Peru, signed the Piuray Declaration on November 9th, ratifying their commitment to protect the country’s source water areas and the natural environments that sustain them. The Piuray Declaration contains seven specific commitments to […]
September 4, 2018 │ Five years ago, Peru made history when its legislators included a short but groundbreaking paragraph in a new law to modernize the country’s sanitation sector. The new provision said that water utilities should invest in natural infrastructure – natural areas such as forests or grasslands that can purify water, absorb floodwaters, […]
The people of San Roque de Cumbaza live in a region of environmental splendor but economic scarcity – and many once feared they’d have to abandon their traditions and their territory to make a living wage. Then, into their midst came a banker on a vision quest. What he saw changed his life and helped them to change theirs.
During a trip through the Peruvian Amazon, Will Park was introduced to exotic fruits when he was rescued by local indigenous people. Since that moment, he couldn’t stop thinking of them and now runs a company called \with his wife Carla Noain – who he also met while on his quest. EcoOla has found both communities interested in working sustainably and a market that seeks their products.
The two countries are supporting a collaborative effort spanning government, businesses, communities, and civil society in Peru to protect the natural systems – grasslands, forests, and wetlands – that can help safeguard water supplies today, and for future generations. Importantly, this new investment in natural infrastructure will improve water security not only for major cities such as Lima, Cusco, Arequipa, Piura, and Moquegua, but also for the small towns and rural communities in Peru’s highlands.
Lake Piuray supplies nearly half of Cusco’s potable water, making it a critical resource for this growing city that is also one of Peru’s most important tourism hubs. There’s something else special about the lake: it is the focus of an innovative agreement between Cusco’s water utility, SEDACUSCO, and rural communities located upstream around the lake. SEDACUSCO has committed a portion of water user tariffs to protecting water quality by expanding access to rural sanitation and compensating land managers who implement sustainable agriculture and conservation practices. The agreement has increased water security for both rural communities and urban water users, and provided a platform for dialogue and cooperation.
William Park estuvo expuesto a la agrosilvicultura por primera vez en la década de 1980, mientras estudiaba biología en el ASA Wright Nature Center en Trinidad y Tobago, una plantación de cacao que se había convertido en un centro de aprendizaje. “Las plantas de cacao seguían creciendo bajo la vegetación y producían cacao después de […]