📋 Tender Overview
The National Water Authority (ANA), an entity attached to the Ministry of Agrarian Development and Irrigation (MIDAGRI), developed awareness-raising actions on integrated water resources management (IWRM) and water culture aimed at peasant communities in the Junin and Huancavelica regions, during the Meeting of Environmental Committees in Peasant Communities, held in the district of El Tambo, province of Huancayo.
The meeting had the active participation of community members from both regions, who are key actors in the Mantaro basin. In this space, the ANA promoted IWRM as a fundamental approach for the planning and administration of water in its various uses, aimed at efficient and sustainable use of the water resource.
Likewise, the culture of water was strengthened as an essential practice in the communities of the Andean mountains, highlighting the importance of the care and protection of the headwaters of the basin and natural sources of water, such as rivers, streams, lakes, lagoons, springs, wetlands, wetlands, glaciers and groundwater.
During the day, the functions and powers of the ANA were also disseminated, in accordance with the Water Resources Law, Law No. 29338, and its Regulations, as well as the National Water Resources Policy and Strategy (PENRH), through its strategic axes and guidelines.
In this framework, the ANA, through the Mantaro Water Administrative Authority (AAA), reported on the interventions developed together with the NGO Fovida in the Yacus sub-basin, for the benefit of the communities in the area. Likewise, through the Mantaro Local Water Administration (ALA), training on water use rights, Water and gender workshops aimed at the female population, and awareness activities on water culture with boys and girls were carried out, through the so-called water cinemas.
Communities learn about the Mantaro Basin Water Resources Management Plan
For their part, professionals from the Technical Secretariat of the Water Resources Council of the Interregional Basin (CRHCI) Mantaro presented the content of the Water Resources Management Plan of the basin, highlighting the participation of communities as fundamental actors to guarantee water conservation and the balance of ecosystems.
The shared vision of the plan, which involves the regions of Pasco, Junin, Huancavelica and Ayacucho, was explained through the approaches The basin we have, The basin we can and The basin we want, in accordance with Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) No. 6: Clean water and sanitation, with a projection to 2030 and 2050.
In this space of open dialogue between the State, through the ANA, and civil society, with the participation of the NGO Fovida, residents of the Yacus sub-basin participated, from the districts of San Jose de Apata, Nununhuayo and Ricran, in the province of Jauja, as well as from the district of Pariahuanca, located in the inter-Andean valleys of the VRAEM, in the Junin region.
Likewise, community members from the high Andean towns of Paccho-Molinos, from the district of Paucara, province of Acobamba, in the Huancavelica region, as well as Chopcca community members from the district of Laria, participated, who reaffirmed their commitment to the protection of water and the sustainable management of water resources in their territories.
