ICA Japan - Peru 1995

Rural Community Development
including Village Water, Irrigation, and Small Livestock

July 1995 - March 1996
Southern Rural Peru

Funded by: MOFA
Implemented by: ICA Peru, ICA Japan and local people

PROJECT OVERVIEW
Canete Prefecture is located in the Costal region, approximately 200 km south of the capital, Lima. Near-drought conditions in the past few years made life in this poverty-stricken area harder, since the people use river water from the Andes for agriculture. Beginning in 1992, ICA has conducted a health, sanitation, and agriculture development project in Canete.

In 1996, the irrigation system was upgraded to cover a wider area by installing and extending new water pipes in Uquila village. A Japanese wind-power specialist was sent to repair the existing wind mills for pumping up underground water and to install new ones. Also, in an effort to secure water, various programmes were carried out in other villages including a mini-dam construction in Uayanti, drinking water pipe extension in Alcadeno, and leadership training and a forestation to reclaim the desert in some other villages.

1. Children in Uquira village where the irrigation and windmill projects were carried out. A lot of young villagers move to Lima to find a new job. It is important to use water effectively and develop a new pump system to attract young people to stay in the village.

2.The canal remained broken until the project was implemented.

3. The river passing through Uquira village, dried up several years ago, so the villagers depend on water from wells for irrigation and living. This canal was repaired and extended to reduce the shortage of the water supply.

4. A project coordinator reviews the work in progress with afforestation and irrigation experts. This canal is 300 meters long and will be extended to 1500 meters.

5. A Project plan was established in consultation with the villagers. A Canal and windmill was set up with their cooperatation and labour. The winds are strong and steady in this valley, so the windmill pumping system is a very effective technology.

6. Instead of an engine driven pump, we constructed a new windmill to pump water from the public well as an appropriate technology demonstration.

7. A windmill tower is made using wooden poles.

8.The base of the windmill tower is set in a concrete foundation.

9. A Cretan type sailwing windmill is constructed using sails for windmill blades which is indigenous to the Mediterranean region.

10. Mr.Dei, renewable energy technology expert, set up the Cretan type windmill over the old pump house. The maximum wind speed at this project site is12 m/s. This helps the system to supply 15 l/m. of water to the fields, via the repaired canal.

11. A villager goes down into the 28m depth of the well to set up the reciprocating pump.

12. Water feeds into the repaired canal and flows to the fields surrounding the village.

13. This windmill is positioned incorrectly because of tall trees surrounding the tower, making it impossible to catch the wind. The windmill owner agreed to let us increase the tower height by 3 meters, thereby positioning it to catch the wind.

14. The height of the windmill tower will be increased to 6 meters after construction.

15. A Minidam was constructed on this 3000m high mountain. This area receives a high concentration of rainfall during the monsoon (June to September) and the dam will store the excess runoff for use in the dry months (January thru April).

16. Villager are collecting materials like rocks and sand from around the mountain site for the mini-dam construction .

17. A drainage valve is installed in the mini-dam construction for easy and periodical removal of accumlated silt from the reservoir floor.

18.19. Two thousand bags of cement and three thousand meters of PVC pipes were used for the mini dam construction and laying a pipeline to the village.

18.19. Two thousand bags of cement and three thousand meters of PVC pipes were used for the mini dam construction and laying a pipeline to the village.

20. Installation of drainage valve to control water level. The embankment is reinforced using stone and cement.

21. Most of the mini-dam construction was completed by the end of January 1997. Over 40 villagers participated in this work.

22.Pipeline serving the Huallanchi village at the foot of mountain. All of the construction work was done with their cooperation.

23. A Potable water system to provide clean drinking water is planned for Arca de Noe village. The pipeline will be extended by 980 meters from the neighbouring village of Paullo. There will be a water tap installed for every 5 families. At this time, villagers fetch water from the river in buckets.

24. Ms.Yoshihara discusses plans for the potable water system with the Arca de Noe villagers. The pipe line will be installed with thier coorperation.

25. A land survey was carried out to make a detailed project plan. A pipeline already exists in the neighbouring Paillo village. This pipeline will be extended to Arca de Noe village.

26.After a land survey, the path for the pipeline is marked using lime powder.

27. Each family helps dig a ditch 100 meters long, 50 cm deep and 40 cm wide. All of the villagers cooperated to dig this hard and rocky ground.

28. Connecting 200 lengths of 2-inch PVC pipes extending the total length of 980 meters.

29. Covering the PVC pipes with soft sand to protect them. This is obtained by painstakingly separating the stones and large objects from the fine sand.

30. Water is sprayed on the newly laid earth and the sand is gently tamped in with a heavy weight.

31. Children enthusiastically watched the water tap installation. Each such tap will serve as a water source for 5 families in the village. Four taps are installed to serve the 20 families residing in Arca de Noe village

32. The Peruvian coastline receives little or no rain. The atmospheric temperature is greater at a 3 meter elevation than at 800 meters above sea level. Banana and grape are grown together given their symbiotic nature. We provided Benjamin seedlings to Arca de noe villagers to green their village.

33.Planting seedlings in a community park in Uquira.

34. We provided 1.000 trees to villagers for planting in the village.

35. Nursery Training in the Aspitia Training Center on the 17th of December. Trainees came from eight different communities for training.

36. Our Afforestation training manual.

37. Practical training for participants. They are planting and tending a nursery farm in the training center's garden.

38. Preparing the soil for planting.

39.Trainees plant seeds in the pre-prepared nursery bed.

40. The training course is complete. All of the trainees are well prepared to create nursery gardens and to introduce these methods to their individual communities.

41. There is a small spring water under the bed of the dried up river. Water is a vital resource and even a small spring of water is an important one. After a heavy rain, mud from the mountains wash over the spring and cover it. It takes the villagers 2?`3 months to remove this dirt. As a future initiative, the villagers would like to install an earthen pipe at the spring, to safeguard their water supply.

42. Some villages in the Asia valley pump up water from shallow wells through a siphoning system using PVC pipes of 1-inch diameter.

43. This siphon system pumps up water to an amazing height of 5?`?Umeters and a distance of more than a kilometer.