Water, water, everywhere!

Submitted By Marcel Stieber

Grass starts to grow only a few short hours after the rains hit the airfield. Similarly, when four men set to work on plumbing, water points start appearing out of thin air! Newly installed right next to the workshop is a nice little water spigot ready to clean greasy hands and fill buckets to clean the planes. Another water point is now on the outside of the Agric building ready to work with the pressure washer for keeping vehicles looking nice. Along the fence line behind the hangers we've added yet another water point to help with bush fires and the usual hand washing as well. And most importantly, the bathroom in the Agric building is water plumbed and now ready for the porcelain treatment to finish it off! That's all in a days work for us here at the field. The next updates on this project will surely shock you!

Water run.....

Submitted by Marcel Stieber

For the first time in a long time we have had to fetch water for the site. The mains has stopped flowing for nearly 5 days and all of our reserves are used up.

Add to that the fact that fuel for the cars and generator went up 20% on Sunday and cooking gas (propane) went up 50% and you start to get the idea that we have a tough time coming up. The city is on load shedding with power outages several times per week. Although we generate our own power at Kpong it just went up 20% with the fuel prices. ..and there are rumours of another fuel shortage on the way.

Not to worry, things are still better than in the past a and we strive forwards with cheer.

Under pressure

Sometimes the pressure is just too much. In fact the water pressure has caused a lot of damage
since we got mains water last year.

Fortunately Jörg and George procured a pressure regulator and kindly donated it to the site at the end of last year.

This week we finally installed it and look forward to keeping the pressure under control.

Now. ... can we get something like this for the rest of what we do?

One strange thing happened on the day we installed this protective device. .. it is brown, has 4 legs, no tail, weighs around 10kg and was nearly dead in the water tower base... if it survives you will soon hear more!