After breakfast, I was sitting in the rocking chair reading the newspaper and having a second cup of coffee. Not really, but I was reading a book by Seth Godin.
Suddenly, I saw two girls carrying water on their heads walking to the front door. This was the first time that I had seen them bring water to the house. But I was curious as to where they were getting the water. The guest house does not have a cistern, so the water must be coming from a cistern located at another house or the hospital.
I found out it was coming from a relatively short distance. The adjoining Technical High School has a cistern. I followed the girls back to the cistern. Unbelievably, the cistern had piping but no pump. So they have to dip out the water with a coffee can at the end of a long bamboo stick.
The two girls made numerous trips to fill three 55-gallon drums next to the kitchen. Getting water is such a challenge.
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