In my last post I mentioned that we were still having water trucked in for home use. That changed yesterday. Last week we bought a small pump and some hose. After much trial and error figuring out how to use the pump, we drove our truck down to the spring fed well that used to accommodate the washing of clothes and filled a 450 liter tinaco with water. Drove home and pumped it into our home system. We can now get water whenever we like.

Further work on our well is postponed until the ground around the well dries up. The problem is that it will not stop raining. Of course we are happy to see the rain. Many farmers have no way to irrigate their fields. They rely exclusively on rain water. 

Here is the spring fed well. There is water year round. And it's clean!

Our set up pumping water into the house.

The following photos are from July I believe.

Work being done on the well. Water level is about 35 feet. Water is being pumped out so that work can continue. Concrete rings are placed in the well to keep it from collapsing and to keep the water free of dirt.

The pump they were using would not pull water from the top so the pump had to be lowered down to the water.