Traveling around the peninsula again…
This time we traveled to Extremadura to design and build a Comprehensive Wastewater Reuse System—a #SIRAR—for a municipal shelter.
The SIRAR will be able to manage wastewater for about 30 people, providing a wide variety of ecosystem services such as irrigation for productive areas, forest growth, shade (which is so important there!), aquifer recharge, and, above all, an end to pollution.
With the support of the local city council and European funding, we have also been able to train people from different parts of the Iberian Peninsula, as well as from France, Italy, and England.
Training individuals who are passionate about urban regeneration is one aspect of our work that motivates us immensely.
We have now completed the design and the first phase of implementation of this system for the La Jarilla Hostel, where the IMORA Association carries out various activities based on permaculture and rural life in Extremadura.
We are very grateful to Linda Zariņa and her family for placing their trust in La Casa Integral for this project, and we look forward to seeing it up and running soon.
We’ll be back shortly
Although the experience has been very rewarding, traveling through barren, ravaged, and now stripped-bare landscapes covered with solar farms…
We can’t help but feel a twinge of frustration, helplessness, and futility about what we’re doing…
There’s a lot of work ahead!
Will what we’re doing be enough?
Will it be in time?
Can a SIRAR project for a municipal shelter in Extremadura really make a meaningful difference?
We take a breath and continue to do our part, with hope and confidence in the emerging qualities of Nature.
More and more people, more municipalities, more communities—working hand in hand—are collaborating on the regeneration of our ecosystems.
We’ll be back in two weeks to finish the installation and continue the training…
Want to join us?