Los Asháninkas y Ashéninkas no han muerto por consumir agua cruda.

Abstract

It is about experiences lived by the author based on ethnographic in situ information of water in native communities of the Ucayali and Junín region, in the framework of pluralism contextualizes the Amazonian villagers facing assimilation to the globalized world, in turn they report the real facts of their community, and how they are interacting with private and state institutions. However, these native communities since ancient times, "as I heard in conversations with priests who are more than a century" receive support from the Franciscan and Claretian mission until today, in fact, with the evangelization, it is more has implemented the communal first aid kit, often the villagers suffered from diseases and poisonous insect bites.In this regard, there are problems with access to water for family consumption. In general, native communities collect water for consumption from rivers and lakes, which affects the gastrointestinal health of children and the elderly in general.