Over the past decades, ASA and families throughout Brazil's semiarid region have developed and refined the method of building plate cisterns. This booklet aims to share this experience in cistern construction, enabling other people to benefit from this technology that has changed the scenario and the lives of thousands of families in the Brazilian semiarid region.

In order that more communities in arid, semi-arid and dry sub-humid regions around the world In order that more communities in arid, semiarid and dry sub-humid regions all over the world have autonomy in the construction of their cisterns, it brings here a step-by-step guide with details of the process of building a plate cistern with the capacity to store 16 thousand liters.

The booklet can also serve as support for technical teams and development institutions working to promote alternatives that allow rural families to improve access to water.