Water Access

The US Embassy delivered water-storage tanks to 85 schools in Honduras's drought-stricken Dry Corridor region, aimed at improving water access as El Niño conditions persist.

More than 60 families in San José de Manchaguala on El Merendón gained access to safe drinking water for the first time after Cervecería Hondureña, Coca-Cola Honduras, and the San Pedro Sula municipality inaugurated a new potable-water system.

Residents of Cerro Colorado in Lempira, frustrated by stalled government water projects, are pooling their own money and materials to drill a well to meet their basic water needs.

The Tegucigalpa municipal government has completed a communal water tank and laundry facility in the 14 de Enero neighborhood that will serve about 900 residents from six surrounding sectors, drawing from a natural spring.

Over 37,000 families in 37 drought-affected municipalities have received humanitarian assistance, and the government is preparing well-drilling, livestock feed, agricultural incentives, and cloud-seeding as additional measures while monitoring the autumn harvest season.

Engineer Dulio Medina cautioned that water access is worsening nationwide, particularly in Tegucigalpa and the southern region, where he says saltwater intrusion from the Pacific is contaminating wells and threatening agriculture and livestock, and urged the government to declare an emergency and deploy pumping systems to tap surface sources.

A new potable-water well equipped with solar-powered pumping was inaugurated in Monte Fresco, Sandy Bay, on Roatán, developed jointly by the Rotary Club and local authorities to provide reliable water access and support sustainable development in the Bay Islands community.