Fall of 2012, Sajen Mtengela, one of our sponsored students, showed me a spring water source on a ridge that he had found and had laid 2 km of pipe to bring water to the edge of Kising'a. The source was still producing in spite of bursting pipes in 2013 and in January 2014 a group of Engineers from University of Minnesota came to Kising'a to design a water system. St Paul Partners implemented their design, with stronger pipe to withstand pressure and a 10,000 liter tank to store water at the distribution point. We visited to inspect the cover for the intake and officially hand the project over to the village. The water is being used without treatment and is very clean. I tasted it and it was refreshing. The tank is full all the time and more water is available. This is the rainy season and some households use water collected from the roofs of their homes but demand will increase in the dry season with people from farther away coming for water.
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| Intake with village supplied cover. The black pipe in the center carries overflow when the tank below is full. Flow from the overflow pipe stops when people start drawing water from the tank. |
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| Ball Valve on top of full tank that shuts off flow to the tank. |
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| Sajen applying a label acknowledging Winter Wheat as one of our donors for the project. |
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| Official hand off of project from Hanael with Sajen on left and Pastor Wihale on right. |
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| Primary students fill buckets at the end of each school day to fill a smaller tank at the school for porridge the next morning. |
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| Parade of students carrying water to the Primary School. |
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| Villagers fill buckets in the morning and at the end of the day. |
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| They carry the water up a hill to their homes and almost make it look easy. |
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