Our water problem is not resolved yet. Several months ago, our well was contaminated by the septic tank that was too close. Until a couple of weeks ago, we were getting water from our neighbors via water hose from their outside faucet to our ground water storage tank. The water was good, but the neighbors’ well cannot indefinitely support two families of six during the dry season. We supplemented by having our driver make one or two trips daily to another compound with a high yield well. He would fill up five 25 liter Gerry cans. He would then pour them into our ground storage tanks.
We at one point thought we were going to fix the problem by running a new pipe to a nearby hospital water storage tank on the compound. The construction was halted by politics. Some people were upset that we were getting access to water that they did not have access to. Our new tentative solution has been to get another large ground storage tank and fill all our storage tanks with a water tanker truck. We send our driver to make sure that a truck is filled with treated water from the “Water Board”, since there are stories of truck drivers filling their tankers with river water and then selling it as treated water. Our first delivery was two weeks ago.
The water lasted 12 days and by Wednesday we had gotten very low on water. We sent our driver again to hire a tanker. Apparently they are now in high demand and he had trouble finding one that was available. He somehow negotiated with a Water Board official, who arranged a delivery by a fire truck. Don’t worry, the driver assured me that they were leaving some water in the fire truck in case they were called to a fire.
Michael Mitchell, MD
We at one point thought we were going to fix the problem by running a new pipe to a nearby hospital water storage tank on the compound. The construction was halted by politics. Some people were upset that we were getting access to water that they did not have access to. Our new tentative solution has been to get another large ground storage tank and fill all our storage tanks with a water tanker truck. We send our driver to make sure that a truck is filled with treated water from the “Water Board”, since there are stories of truck drivers filling their tankers with river water and then selling it as treated water. Our first delivery was two weeks ago.
The water lasted 12 days and by Wednesday we had gotten very low on water. We sent our driver again to hire a tanker. Apparently they are now in high demand and he had trouble finding one that was available. He somehow negotiated with a Water Board official, who arranged a delivery by a fire truck. Don’t worry, the driver assured me that they were leaving some water in the fire truck in case they were called to a fire.
Michael Mitchell, MD
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