Education requires an integration between the educational community and the environment, the pedagogical practice of educational institutions is nourished by the links established with the interests, needs and opportunities presented by students and the environment. In the corregimiento of San Juan de Palos Prieto, in Pueblo Viejo, the quality of the water sources is inadequate; This is why an environmental education and water quality evaluation program was set up in the school and the corregimiento. Through direct work with the communities it was possible to identify the uses, history and the main environmental problems, highlighting the misuse of the resource, by palm plantations. Through the project the formation and sensitization of the community in environmental terms was achieved, in order to improve and preserve the water sources close to the population, so that these can be of optimum quality for the multiple uses that are given at the domestic level and community