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Melt national of Productive
and Social investment (FPS) :
Discussion with Marina Dockweiler,
specialist into medical basic.
Hydrotour : Can you present to
us in two words the FPS ?
Marina Dockweiler : The FPS is a
governmental entity which channels the monetary
resources coming from the other countries
and which is given the responsability to
invest them in Bolivia. We occupy ourselves
exclusively of the villages of less than
10 000 inhabitants and we apply the popular
law of participation. I.e., that in a sector
where they have vital needs, the population
created a file and solicits the municipal
governments which themselves solicit us.
H : What represents the sector
of water for you?
MD : It is to tell the truth the
only one which I know here since it is for
this department of the FPS that I work.
I know that 2003 were issued international
year of fresh water, after the tops of Johannesburg
and Kyoto. It is within this framework that
the government decided to give a great blow
of collar for water. We thus requested all
the international authorities and we received
Inter-American Bank of Development a loan
of 56 million dollars. 39 million will be
invested directly in projects of water and
medical. The remainder will be used to reinforce
the sector of the water of the ministry,
the prefectures and the municipalities (installation
of standards and projects of communications).
On the 39 million dollars, 32 million will
be directly used for the infrastructures
and the remainder for the social accompaniment
(sensitizing).
"the rural community is not profitable"
H : Why confine itself at the
village of less than 10 000 inhabitants
?
MD : There is another governmental
entity like ours, but which is directed
towards the urban populations, whereas we
are directed towards the rural populations.
They receive also assistances of various
institutions.
The principal reason of the existence of
these two entities, it is that a urban community
does not have the same needs as a rural
community. Moreover, the rural community
is not profitable. To install a system of
collecting, treatment and distribution of
water in a village is always done at a loss,
one thus needs a more consequent state aid.
H : Can you recall us briefly
how articulates a project?
MD :
1. Medical education;
2. Sensitizing for the use of water;
3. Development of a tariff and especially
explanation of which pays, when and why;
4. Formation with the maintenance of the
system;
5. Constitution of a committee of administration
of the system.
Social migration
H : About tariff construction,
which kinds of problems do you meet ?
MD : We always build our projects
in the simplest possible way, by preferring
the gravitating distribution rather than
by pump, etc... the tariff is thus low possible
and covers the remuneration of the employees.
But it is not obvious because Bolivia has
a characteristic: social migration.
It acts of the migration of the workers,
according to seasons', in the zones where
they can find work. They are thus downtown
except at the time of sowing, harvests or
the festivals. Remain in the villages only
the old children and people who do not have
money to pay.
H : It is thus impossible to
cover all the expenditure ?
MD : It would be without counting
Bolivian ingeniousness (to laugh). We developed
a cyclic system of tariff which adapts to
each village according to the activities
of its inhabitants and their seasonal migrations.
"We will be able to cover 100%
of the villages of the country"
H : Which prospects for water
in the campaigns in Bolivia ?
MD : We are rather proud since with
the loan of the BID (International Bank
of Development) we will feed out of water
635 000 people is more or less 900 villages
and this for 2005. Us should also receive
before long a gift of the European Union
of an amount of 40 million Euro which will
enable us to cover 100% of the villages
of the country. At the time of the constitution
of the files for the loan of the BID we
had received 1400 files, they all will thus
be treated with these two money sums.
H : To finish on this good news,
can you tell us a word for the children
and your vision of water in the durable
development ?
MD : Water it is the life, phrases
which all the more takes direction in a
country in the process of development like
ours.
It is thus necessary to profit and use water
so as not to compromise the use of the future
generations, and thus to think of the future
generations.
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