San Antonio!

First of all, I need to confess that I was a bad boy last week. I did not post anything to the blog. With Chet and Lizzeth here and all of the other stuff I had going on I didn't get around to it. I have a million excuses I could use and they will all work, but the truth is I just didn't do it.

Now the good news! Massive things are happening in San Antonio. The water system is underway as you can see to the left. The villagers are in the process of building a new reservoir to hold the water. From here it will enter the piping system and go to the storage tanks, where it will then enter the distribution system.

There will be two tanks built because they way the village is situated. There are some homes scattered among the hills and valleys and it will just work better to have two smaller tanks than one large one.

Daniel says they are moving at light speed to get this done as soon as possible. Remember, this is the village that has the source of water below the level of the homes and water doesn't run
up hill in Honduras, so we will be installing a pump as well. It will be an electric pump because we have access to electricity (a miracle story) and it will be more reliable than a mechanical type of pumping system.

The villagers are working on the water system while at the same time they are building latrines, pilas (sinks), dry wells, concrete floors, and improved stoves as well! Whew!! Oh yeah! And they are also working at their jobs. These guys in San Antonio are not normal!! They really want to make things better for themselves and it ROCKS!!


To the left you can see the backhoes at work preparing the site for the first tank. This is going to be so cool to see this when it is done. All they had before was a 1/2" tube and a 50 gallon barrel to supply more than 20 homes with water...this will be life changing!!
Until next week fellow FREAKS!! (Yeah, I'll explain it in next week's post!!)