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Expanding access to clean water with our second borehole

A moment of celebration and progress: the pump for the second borehole is in the ground, and more households can be reached.

14 August 2023 Kajiado County WaterStarters engineering

Second borehole in the ground.

The pump for the second borehole went in this week. It is a small operational milestone, but a meaningful one for the people it serves. More households can now be reached with piped connections, and the peak time queue at the kiosks should ease.

The boring bits worth celebrating.

  • Casing and grouting checked.
  • Pump sized against the actual yield rather than an optimistic one.
  • Solar array reworked so the extra load did not push the system past its limits.
  • Reservoir cleaned and rehabilitated.

Sometimes progress looks like a bigger pipe.

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