In early August the well at Nyakarongo was capped and started to provide clean water to that community. The well was dug to a depth of 21ft with a water column of 6ft and a recharge rate of 2ft per hour.

Elsewhere digging continues in Kigunya. Two shafts had to be abandoned after we struck rock at around 20 ft. The third shaft is now down 5 ft. We have two well technicians working in Kitanyata. They are now down 12 ft with a water column of 4 ft.

Our work has been suspended in Pakanyi, the 2nd village in which we couldn’t complete our efforts due to land disputes. We hope to be back there some day. In spite of the need in Pakanyi, we won’t site wells in communities that are not contributing sufficiently to the effort or seem unprepared to properly manage the new community asset. We are presently working in 5 other new communities, collecting baseline data and assessing the cultural and geologic feasibility of a new water source. We will assign these projects to donors when work has progressed further. We remain hopeful that we will achieve our target of 10 wells completed in 2008, our first year of operation.