Emergency Water Kit

I wanted to share some things that have gone on over the past few weeks - sorry for my lack of communication recently!

About two weeks ago our team spent a few days testing out an Emergency Water Kit that is a vital piece of our project here in Kaabong. This kit is designed to be set up within 24 hours to respond to an outbreak of a water-bourne disease such as typhoid or cholera which can devestate a community within days. The kit allows us to set up a water pumping and filtering system to provide clean water to a community and therefore stop the spread of a disease due to lack of clean water supply. The process goes like this:


1. Jetting water (using the force of water through a pipe to 'drill' a hole into the earth to reach a new, clean source of water)

2. Pumping water from the jetted source

3. Filling a tank full of the pumped water

4. Pumping the water through a chlorination tank to cleanse it

5. Pumping the clean water into a bladder tank

6. Water flows out via tap stands for people to access it


It was fascinating for me to watch this process, as I'm not technical when it comes to this stuff. :) I tried to help as I could, but my role in these emergencies would really be to hold down the fort and keep the team in communication with our offices and be a support along the way. So I became the photographer for these days and tried to keep the kids who gathered entertained as well! What I love about this part of our project is that 1)we have not had an outbreak yet that needed such a massive response (yeah!) and 2)that it really would make a HUGE difference in a very short period of time. Let's pray this is never needed, but if it is we are much better prepared for it now & will continue to tweak our ability to respond quickly and as a cohesive team.

Dola & Trace are testing the chlorination treatments

the raging Kaabong river...

Charles, Jacob (Coco), Simon, Dola & Trace - our dynamic Watsan team!