PERU AQUAFONDO Water Fund for Lima & Callao LIMA & CALLAO © Aquafondo After the city of Cairo in Egypt, the metropolitan area of Lima is the second largest city in the world that is settled in a desert. With a population of almost 10 million inhabitants, this area receives just 9 millimeters of rain per year, which is why water scarcity is one of its main environmental challenges. Sheltering about 31% of the population of the entire country, Lima depends on the water provided by three pacific basins: Chillón, Rímac and Lurín, and del Mantaro located on the Atlantic side. The Water Fund for Lima and Callao, AQUAFONDO, created in 2010, has been a pioneer in promoting the creation of legal instruments that aim to promote the implementation of Green Infrastructure Water Regulation projects in Peru. In addition, the Fund has undertaken different Green Infrastructure and Ecosystem Services projects, promoting the conservation, recovery and sustainable use of water, contributing to Lima and Callao’s water security. This product is co-funded by the Inter-American Development Bank within the Latin America Water Funds Partnership. The opinions expressed in this publication are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Inter-American Development Bank, its Board of Directors, or the countries they represent. THE POWER TO CONVENE VARIOUS STAKEHOLDERS AROUND A COMMON GOAL AQUAFONDO has gain the support of prestigious institutions such as the Fund of the Americas, TNC, the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru, the Peruvian Society of Environmental Law, the Backus Foundation, Mexichem- PAVCO, Grupo GEA, Rotoplas and Nestlé Peru and works in direct coordination with the Metropolitan Municipality “This park was once a “pampa”, there were many gang members and they of Lima, the Ministry of the Environment, the National broke the plants. Now the water is arriving twice a week and the plants are Water Authority, the Regional Government of Lima and the growing, we have a nicer place to live!” National Superintendence of Sanitation Services. Aniceta Zegarra, Neighbor of San Juan de Miraflores. © Aquafondo KEY CONTRIBUTIONS TO WATER SECURITY STRATEGIC LINES OF ACTION • Management and conservation of the water resources of the AQUAFONDO formulated the First Green Infrastructure Lima basins. Public Investment Project for Lima, within the framework of • Participatory water management and governance. the MRSE Law and under the financing fund established by • Articulation of efforts between the public-private sectors. SUNASS, which has already been approved and is expected • Water Culture. to be implemented during 2018. RESULTS AS OF DECEMBER 2018 POSITIVE IMPACT ON THE AVAILABILITY AND QUALITY OF WATER FUND STAGE OPERATION WATER FOR CONSUMPTION IN RURAL OR ha URBAN COMMUNITIES Total implementation area 1,605 Implementation strategies Infiltration channels recovery, technical Through the articulation of efforts between the public and irrigation efficiency, natural grasslands management & improvement, treated private sectors, 7ha of green areas in Lima have been restored wastewater reuse. reusing treated wastewater from the Wastewater Treatment 900 Plants (WWTP) of Private Companies. This initiative has Families participating in upstream projets generated different economic, social and environmental $3,485,563 USD benefits to local governments such as the recovery of public Total inversion US$ spaces in addition to its contribution to recharging the aquifer. ECONOMIC WATER SECURITY The implementation of a technified irrigation system in the Upica Communal Farm were key to implement sustainable LIMA, PERU agricultural and livestock practices amongst producers. With this project, agricultural soils have been recovered, greater availability of water resources for production has been promoted AQUAFONDO is part of the Latin American Water Funds Partnership, and the economic income of the people of the community has an agreement between the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), increased. FEMSA Foundation, the Global Environment Facility (GEF) and The Nature Conservancy. (TNC) in order to contribute to the water security of Latin America and the Caribbean through the creation and strengthening of ENVIRONMENTAL AND DOMESTIC WATER SECURITY Water Funds. The recovery of ancestral hydric recharge infrastructures has been done through the rehabilitation and improvement of the Huytama and Saywapata amunas in San Pedro de Casta and Waykanampo in San Juan de Iris. These interventions ensure greater infiltration of water into the soil, contributing to the water recharge of the Rímac basin and providing water to the Humans need water to survive. Water needs nature … and nature communities of Lima and Callao. needs you. Protect it! g www.waterfunds.org.