Richard Schori: Water is a problem in many parts of Kenya. The problem is usually a lack of technology to obtain it. Ron Petersen, a hydrologist from Reno, Nevada, has a personal mission to help Africans find water. I went on an all-day car ride to areas generally to the east of Nairobi with Ron and Peter, the contractor for the Mua Hills Clinic, who has a home and family in the area we traveled. The first picture is at Muthoka Mutua's house in Machakos. On the left is a roof-water catchment tank, a popular method of obtaining water in Kenya. From there we visited existing water wells, studying the geology of those areas, and then explored several locations looking for potential well-drilling sites.
Dipping water from a natural or hand-dug spring is a typical method for Kenyans to obtain water. At one of these publicly owned springs, two well-dressed Kenyans who owned a home near-by confronted us asking why we were taking pictures and claimed that they owned the spring and we had no business there. Peter, a small man, used an authoritative personal stance and got us out of the situation, explaining later that they were old-fashioned governmental bureaucrats.
The final picture is where water is being sold from a well owned by a school and dug by an Egyptian company.
Water tank at Muthoka's house
Ron & Katharine at well near
Muthoka's house
At well with son and woman
Ron and Peter
Transporting water cans
Goats
Privately owned hand dug well
Ron with rock dug from well
Well with family members
Corn storage shed on right
Looking for well site
A bull snorting at Richard
Cows near a pond from spring
Ron examining quarts strata
Children after water
Woman dipping water
On drive to Peter's house
Peter, son and house with Ron
Dug spring for dipping water
Natural spring where we were confronted by bureacrat
Kenyans waiting to dip water from spring
At near-by medical clinic in
small village
Nurse, Peter and son
At well owned by school
Pictures and web page by Richard Schori
schori@lvcm.com