As promised, here are the photos from Pimienta, Honduras, just upriver from Wampusirpi on the Rio Patuca. My friend Rolando López took these.
This is the village that needs a water system. He reported that the village has 60 houses and just one well, shown below.
Here is a spring-fed stream; this might be a source for the water system.
Rolando was unable to reach the source of the spring, as the vegetation was quite thick.
Finally, below is Don Antonio Rivas, the village leader.
I'll never forget the time I returned to a village in which I had once worked and was greeted with 'Don Miguel! ¿Cómo está usted?'
Looks like we have some work ahead of us. If we decide to undertake this project we'll have to find a way to get the materials to the village. It's not possible to drive to the site - it's either by water or air.
If we go during the dry season, the rivers might be too low to transport material. If we go during the rainy season, the rivers might be too high and the mud too deep.
We'll figure it out.
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This must not be enough water for them!. So we gotta save water everyday.
Posted by: Héctor Alfredo Torres | Tuesday, 16 February 2010 at 12:11 PM
I fully realize my comment to the above posting at first blush will appear quite harsh and even insensitive, though that is not my intention.
I am moved by all the attention world wide to the plight of water, the honest difficulty that many have in obtaining any water, safe or not. On the other hand, I wonder how do Americans help others when for the most part the very water we consume is NOT safe...?
I do not consider myself a religious person, though a passage from a book rings with clarity in this instance for me ... "physician, heal thy self" ... it seems to me if America chooses to set a course to assist others we need fist to heal our own and my observation over these last 30 years we have done a piss-poor job in that regard.
America is great at giving advise, but are terrible at taking any honest constructive criticism, though I believe "mother-nature" is suggesting we might want to learn...?
Respectfully submitted,
Paul F Miller
http://waterman99.wordpress.com
Posted by: PAUL F MILLER | Monday, 15 February 2010 at 09:18 AM