We got some water yesterday. I had made a call to Jean van Wetter, the VSO country director, and he put some wheels in motion and a phone call was made from Dar es Salaam to Kibaya.
The upshot of this call was that yesterday afternoon half a dozen big, medium and small water potatoes were gathered around our house and we got 500 litres of water.
Trying to find a solution to our water problem
There appears to be three problems. There are two leaks in the water pipes on the other side of the road leading to our house. We happily forked over 15,000 Tsh (about nine dollars) to buy couplings and seals to fix these leaks. We are hoping that this will be done soon but, TIA.
The third problem is that the Tanzanian Revenue Authority office, that shares our water delivery pipe, has apparently been bending the pipe to increase the water pressure to their office. This has the effect of shutting off our supply. I couldn't make this stuff up.
This last problem may be more difficult to solve. It will require delicate and highly intense negotiations between the big potatoes at the local local water authority and the big potatoes at the revenue authority. This could take some time but hopefully we will have water on the district schedule sometime before there is peace in the Middle East.
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