16 thousand litres – Plates Cisternas (Inglês)
Over the past decades, ASA and families of Brazil’s semiarid region have developed and improved the method of building cisterns.
This guidebook aims to share this experience, enabling other people to benefit from this technology that has changed the scenario and the lives of thousands of families in the Brazilian semiarid region. It details the entire process about how to build a cistern with a capacity to store 16,000 liters.
This guidebook can support technical teams and development institutions working to promote solutions that enable rural families to improve their access to water. In addition, so that more communities in arid, semi-arid and dry sub-humid regions of the world have autonomy in the construction of their cisterns.