Project Summary
The Bernardino-Diaz Ochoa project was a collaboration with the EWB-USA Rice University Student Chapter. The community is a subsistence farming community that had made ends meet despite the lack of electricity or access to clean water. With the nearest health clinic a two-hour drive from the town, most members of this community received little or no health care at all. While the university chapter designed and built a health clinic based on straw-bale construction for the community of 600, the EWB-USA CHP chapter built a solar power system to provide a reliable source of power and a rainwater harvesting system to provide a reliable source of
clean water for the clinic.
Project Adoption Date:
2007
Project Status:
Closed
Impact: 600 people provided with clean water via rain catchment system