Caminos Joins Forces with Amistad Canada!

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Amistad Canada & Caminos de Agua

Creating Water Access Together


We're  proud to announce that Caminos de Agua has been approved as a Project Partner of Amistad Canada!  Amistad Canada is a registered Canadian charity that collaborates with Mexican non-profit organizations to deliver health and education projects in San Miguel de Allende and other parts of Mexico. Caminos de Agua has been working for over a decade on water scarcity and contamination issues and the health issues they create in the Northern part of Guanajuato State (including San Miguel de Allende), and we are very proud to be selected by this prestigious organization. 

If you're a Canadian citizen, this is great news. Now you can help us expand access to clean water and get a Canadian Income Tax deduction at the same time. This is an important step for us since it allows our Canadian friends to deepen their support for our work.

Canadian donors can receive this benefit by making your contribution directly on Amistad Canada’s page here:

Amistad's Site

Be sure to select the “Caminos de Agua” Project from the drop down menu!

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Who We Are and What We Do?

Our mission is to improve human health and community well-being through adequate and affordable access to clean water.

We provide innovative water solutions for communities at-risk on our aquifer in Central Mexico, and leverage those solutions for others confronting similar water challenges around the globe. We employ a unique bottom-up approach to working cooperatively within these communities, and we freely share the results of our rigorous testing and analysis of water supplies. We work in partnership with grassroots community organizations, leading research institutions, government at all levels, and other nonprofits to effect positive change in water awareness, solutions, policies, and practice, in an effort to create adequate access to safe, healthy drinking water supplies. We are a mix of immigrant residents and Mexicans, technologists and community organizers, researchers and educators – united by a collective concern for public health and welfare.

The Need for Clean Water Access in a Region in Crisis

In Mexico, 52% of the population (~67 million) live with some form of water scarcity: more than 47 million do not have daily or continuous water access and an estimated 9-11 million have no water service at all. At the same time, 75% of water is used for agriculture. In the state of Guanajuato, for example, overexploitation for industrial agriculture is reducing groundwater levels by two to three meters per year—30 times above the eight-centimeter loss per year that qualifies as “extreme water stress”. The decrease in groundwater levels is forcing wells ever deeper into geological substrates, which has resulted in the emergence of naturally- occurring chemicals in local groundwater supplies. In Guanajuato, arsenic levels are up to 23 times higher than the World Health Organization recommendations and more than 12 times higher for fluoride.

"The water is sick because it comes from very deep. It is causing illnesses in us, slowly, over time."

Words from a resident volunteer coordinator in one of Caminos’ community water projects

The  chemical contamination of water supplies in our region is a serious public health crisis. Arsenic and fluoride are closely linked to dental fluorosis, crippling skeletal fluorosis, chronic kidney disease, skin disease, and various cancers. Children are at greatest risk, as their growing bodies absorb these minerals at a much higher rate, and exposure to high fluoride during childhood has shown to have severe impacts on children’s cognitive development and learning ability later in life. However, lack of adequate water monitoring means the problem has remained largely unknown and therefore, untreatable.

Beyond polluting groundwater, overexploitation is causing more and more  wells to dry up, leaving entire communities with no water at all. Residents are forced to fetch water from alternative sources that are often unreliable, expensive, or unsafe, putting their physical and economic wellbeing at risk—especially for women who are usually responsible for collecting water.

Current solutions to improve access to safe water are not adequate for rural contexts, as they are either prohibitively expensive or not trustworthy. We believe that this crisis must be faced with both innovative, low-cost solutions that address the current needs of marginalized communities, as well as long term strategies to tackle increasingly complex water challenges.

Join Us  To Create Critically Needed Clean Water Access

As you can see, our water issues are complex and require a lot of collaboration and goodwill to mitigate the negative impacts in the short term and solve them in the long term.

Thanks to our new partnership with  Amistad Canada it is now possible for concerned Canadians to join us in the fight against water scarcity and contamination. Your gift, regardless of size, will mean a great deal here in Mexico. Please consider making a donation today or sharing this message with your Canadian friends! Remember that every donation you make is now tax deductible in Canada (and in the U.S, too where we are organized as a 501(c)3 organization)(Click here to learn more about Caminos).
 

For Canadian Donors, click here*

*Be sure to select the “Caminos de Agua” Project from the drop down menu!
 

For All Other Donations, click here
Caminos de Agua is a registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit organizaiton in the US and a Mexican Asociación Civil. Tax-deductible donations in the US and facturas for donations in Mexico can be made directly through our website by clickng the link above. 
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