CDB improves access to water in Maya village in Belize

By Tusankine English On Feb 3, 2016

**The tank, which forms part of the upgraded Santa Anna Village water system that will provide a sufficient and continuous supply of potable water to the community**

TOLEDO DISTRICT, Belize — Ninety households now have access to running water in Santa Anna Village, a poor Maya community in Belize’s remote Toledo District.

Unlike years past, there is no fear that the pipes will go dry, leaving mothers and children to trek to the nearby Moho River to fetch untreated water to meet their families’ daily needs.

The turnaround for the villagers, 46 per cent of whom live below the poverty line, has come through an intervention by the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) and government of Belize that upgraded and expanded the village’s rudimentary water system.[su_box title=”Caribbean Development Bank” style=”soft” box_color=”#54c0f0″]The Caribbean Development Bank (CDB), is a regional financial institution which was established by an Agreement signed on October 18, 1969, in Kingston, Jamaica, and entered into force on January 26, 1970. The Bank came into existence for the purpose of contributing to the harmonious economic growth and development of the member countries in the Caribbean and promoting economic cooperation and integration among them, having special and urgent regard to the needs of the less developed members of the region (Article 1 of the Agreement establishing CDB). In the Revised Treaty of Chaguaramas, the CDB is recognised as and Associate Institution of CARICOM[/su_box]