Tuesday, October 18

*** Habs beat the Bruins�again. Great. There are three new posts beneath
this one, going back to Saturday ***

Research. I went back to Kumawu today. For those of you that are paying
attention, Kumawu was where we had the meeting with the chief a few weeks
ago. I went to take some photos that we can use essentially as marketing
tools. I�m going to be putting together some multimedia in the next few
weeks that we are going to send to our donors in the US. It was pretty
interesting to see. We distributed water from one of our reservoirs and
women came in droves with buckets to get some. It started to pour so our
work was cut short, but it was interesting to see how people reacted to the
rain. Buckets came out of everywhere, placed under spouts to collect the
rainwater. Considering how torrential the rain was, I�m sure a lot was
collected. The problem is that the rainy season is at most five months out
of the year. And the area has no groundwater because it is solid rock a few
metres below the surface. The lower areas have groundwater, so people make
good money selling their water to people in the higher communities. That�s
why we are putting in reservoirs that can be filled by our tanker. We don�t
give the water away (we need to cover fuel and maintenance costs), but we do
charge about 50% less than the private companies.

On the way back, we bought some bananas for lunch. The skins got chucked out
the window. Hopefully they don�t cause an accident. I couldn�t help but
think about Chris Farley in Billy Madison. �O�Doyle Rules!� Because it was
pouring, we stopped to pick up some school-children who were waiting by the
side of the road for a tro-tro or a bus. And by some, I mean about 30. I�m
not exaggerating. I counted them as they got out. We had at least 26 kids
crammed into the middle of the van in a space that is no more than 6 feet by
6 feet. It was amazing. That�s it for today. It�s been 2 days out of 3
without internet. Weird.