Photo
ONE MILLION CISTERNS FOR THE SEMI-ARID REGION. SANTA HELENA. JEQUITINHONHA VALLEY. MINAS GERAIS
Machine translation from Português (Brasil). The creator's original is in Português (Brasil).
22 Jan 2013
Community of Santa Helena, in the lower Jequitinhonha region, Northern Minas Gerais. In this region it is possible to find three types of biomes: caatinga, cerrado and Atlantic forest. ASA Brasil, Articulation in the Brazilian Semi-Arid, has implemented in several communities in Northern Minas the One Land and Two Waters Program (P1+2) and the One Million Cisterns Program (P1MC) which aims to enable the capture and storage of rainwater in these communities for human consumption, animal husbandry and food production.
Visual description
A boy runs along a concrete structure next to a stream, as a man walks ahead in a natural, hilly landscape captured in black and white.
rivergeological phenomenonmonochrome photographyrecreationhumanphotographytreewaterstock photographyblack-and-whitearts, culture and entertainmenthuman rightspoliticsspace programme
Related
Matched on subject & tags