1. Columbia Water Center / Pepsico Project Designing Sustainable Water Systems Under Climate Stress In Northeast Brazil The Caatinga biome

2. Project Location

3. Semi-arid region: Low Precipitation and High Evaporation Annual Precipitation

4. Infrastructure Project in Brazil Developing a Scalable Method for Providing Rural Water Supplies

5. Rural Water Supply: Diagnostic

6. Rural Water Supply: Water Access for Communities Acess to water# Community# Homes (families) Critical601.091 Deficient371.002 Satisfactory302.438 Good274.197 Total1548.728

7. Rural Water Supply in Semi-Arid: 75% of the communities have already been the target of some kind of government intervention for their supply of drinking water Why they failed ? 1) lack of a solution integrated planning; 2) deficient infrastructure projects; 3) lack of community social capital mobilization aimed at long-term sustainability

8. Developing a Scalable Method for Providing Rural Water Supplies – We changed the approach

9. CWC/UFC team members with Pedra Fina dweller and his son (water in faucet) Water reservoir built in Ingá community, Milhã, Brazil Water in faucet (Ingá) CWC/UFC team with the Milhã mayor and municipal staff (Project plate inauguration)

10. Pedra Fina’s dweller happiness with water in his home People of Ingá during an evening meeting for deciding about the project option Monitoring the Ingá reservoir water qualityThe same – Ingá reservoir quality sampling

11. Rural Water Supply: Municipal Water Planning

12. PAM building (Water Municipal Plan)

13. PAM (Water Municipal Plan) 82 rural communities supplied with drinking water