The provincial government invited the National University of Tucumán to develop a feasibility study and technical projects for a community of 25,000 inhabitants. The Provincial Executing Committee (Unidad Ejecutora Provincial) was established to oversee the project.The University involved lecturers, researchers and students to develop this complex project. In these teams, students, researchers and professors of different levels worked together allowing not only the extension tasks made by the professionals, but also the practice, the knowledge acquisition and their application to real life problems by the advanced students of the different careers. The consultancy had to perform a study on water supply and demand in the settlement areas of the affected population. A feasibility study also included construction details, technical specifications, budget, financial resources and implementation schedules for the selected alternatives.
It was essential that IWRM aspects were employed: the interdisciplinary approach given to the study, analysing the water resource available, its demand and the evaluation of the best economic and technical alternatives.
The project team conducted a complex study including technical solutions, institutional arrangements of future water supply operation. Both ground and surface water resources were assessed to be used for drinking water purposes. The technical and financial justification favoured the ground water sources.This commission worked together with the University team presenting policies guidelines, offering pre-existing information, flattening the communication with the local authorities and making the tasks execution possible to achieve the appointed goal.