After roughly two years... yes, years... The water from the health
center is now going to flow into a water tank that has sat next to it
for at least several months. Up to this point, when the rain started
coming down, mothers would send out their kids with buckets to come grab
the water as it fell off the tin rooftop and carved out a nice hole in
the ground. Then the kids would carry the bucket back to the house in
the rain. Logic would deem that you place a large container here to
catch this resource and store it for later. Logic prevailed and a
bucket was placed there that quickly became the local dog watering bowl
as well as the community water reservoir. Enter Boaz and a rainy
Tuesday morning. Since it was too wet to drive, and Boaz being the
productive type, he decided he'd looked at the community suffering from
this underutilized resource long enough. So he went to work stacking
the stones (that had been loosely piled there for months as well)
layered with ground to hold them in place, and suddenly with only a few
hours work you have the fantastic result you see before you.
Now there's no erosion hole, no dog watering bucket, and a mosquito
larvae free reservoir for communal use. I'd call that a step up in the
world.
