As Colombia is a developing country it still does not guarantee the supply of drinking water to the entire population, with rural areas being the least prioritized. This is the case of the Doche village, located in the north of the municipality of Villavieja in the department of Huila, composed of approximately thirty families, which do not have all the basic sanitation services and have difficulties in obtaining water to expand the agricultural frontier, mainly for cocoa and fruit crops. Nowadays, irrigation water is supplied by gravity, which impedes the expansion of the agricultural frontier by 90 available acres, in addition to the high costs incurred by each family in transporting the fluid from the irrigation district to its respective storage tank for domestic use by means of motor pumps that run on fossil fuels.The project is proposed to provide a solution to the water resource through a hydraulic pumping system with photovoltaic solar energy, which seeks to bring water from the irrigation canal of the Cabrera River to a single reservoir, which supplies the total water resource to irrigate 90 acres of productive land and domestic use. For this purpose, the water demand of crops in the potentially productive area and for the population is analyzed in order to calculate the total water resource for the subsequent sizing of the hydraulic system, calculating the energy demand and designing the solar photovoltaic system. This proposal is intended to expand the current irrigation system to cover the needs of agricultural expansion and replace the domestic use system, as well as to minimize the environmental impact and improve the living conditions of the population through a sustainable development project.
