The future of the project?

-In the morning we met with Johnson Anyumba, who is a geologist from the Groundwater Solutions Drilling Company. His company recently drilled a well for the community of Luanda. Julia and I had discovered a couple of days earlier, when speaking to Michael, that the community had drilled a well. Michael told me that the community was concerned about the quality of its water, especially after our water quality demonstrations last year. They had put together a water board for the community and had developed a system to help maintain it. We were very impressed, and this actually will help us implement the next part of our water project next year. Anyways, back to the story at hand, Johnson had just drilled the new Opanga well and was briefing us its metrics, i.e. the safe water yield, pump intake depth, etc.
-In the middle of the meeting Phil and Nate arrived from the Kisumu airport (they were picked up by our driver, Julia, and Benson).
-Following the meeting, we tried to catch the ferry but we missed it because we found out two lids for the tanks were missing. As a result, we ended up driving to Luanda…. It took us around five hours, including a stop in Homa Bay for lunch. Phil and Nate had just arrived in Kenya for the first time, so they quite enjoyed seeing the countryside
-We eventually arrived in Launda, where we had the opportunity to visit the VIAGANCO clinic. They’ve painted the building since EWB was last there, and the place is looking quite nice. They’ve also already wired the building for electricity and are only waiting for the government to commission the transformer down the street. We were able to see our new purchased tanks placed on the cement platforms we had designed… the whole setup was looking quite nice. Now all we have to do is run some guttering, piping, troubleshoot some problems, and we’ll have ourselves a real rainwater catchment system!
- Scott