Villa San Felipe from Austria was founded amid a limpid landscape and now he has to support an overloaded atmosphere, with problems like the poverty, the abandonment of the authorities, the lack of centers of health, among other.

At the present time, acoustic and environmental high contamination exists, while the old part of the city suffers of a vehicular congestion that causes nuisances in the population of the city

The surrounding regions to the city suffer a severe contamination. For example, the lake Poopó, in accordance with a scientific study prepared by Víctor Zabaleta and Michael Bremer, has lead in a quantity of 300 higher than in the average of the lakes of the world. 

Oruro lacks suitable systems of sewerage, since in the raining season the city suffers of floods.