Our Mission

Agua Vida is a network of civil society organizations and individuals working in San Miguel de Allende to preserve and restore our finite water resources and to ensure the right to clean water for all through an informed and engaged society.

San Miguel de Allende and its surrounding communities are running out of water and the water that we do have is often contaminated with arsenic and fluoride. This urgent situation requires broad community participation in the search for solutions. The AguaVida Network was conceived as a seedbed for various forms of organized action. It is a permanent collaboration of organizations and is based on patterns of voluntary, reciprocal and horizontal communication, which stimulate joint thinking and action.

Strategies

Raise awareness
  • Educational programs
  • Information campaigns
  • Events
Increase social participation through
  • Individual actions
  • Influencing public policy
Take action
  • Strenthen impact by collaborating with individual organizations in the network
  • Initiate campaigns that bring together knowledge and experience
Gather knowledge and monitor research and analysis of water-related issues at local, national and international levels

News

CONTAMINATION

For a few years now, the Presa Allende has suffered from an infestation of Lirio Acuático (water hyacinth). Lirio is a free-floating plant that... Read more

DROUGHT

San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato.- The Los Torres community reservoir is being rehabilitated thanks to the intervention of civil... Read more

PUBLIC POLICY

Elena Burns, a water specialist, is interviewed by La Coperacha in the context of the transition of the Federal Government. During the six-year... Read more

WATER & AGRICULTURE
André Leu & Ronnie Cummins

The Organic Consumers Association, Regeneration International and Via Organica are excited to announce André Leu & Ronnie Cummins soon to be... Read more

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