Recapping

Everyone who has ever written on a blog, or something like it, knows that it can be hard to keep up the continuity throughout a longer period. The same goes for us and that's why you haven't been getting much updates from here recently. HOWEVER, that doesn't mean that we have been slacking off. On the contrary, the latest month has been very busy trying to find out and do everything we had to before leaving Kolandoto (and also with some well deserved vacation in the more ocean-close parts of Tanzania of course).

From an engineering point of view, the most important work the latest weeks, and perhaps for the whole stay in Kolandoto, has been to install the new water pump. As mentioned earlier in this blog, there is an urgent need for a new water pump for the hospital and village of Kolandoto. After the pump test, thorough investigations of the whole water supply system, and careful budget assessments we decided together with the hospital on a submersible Dayliff 17/10. (For the nerdy readers, read further about the pump here: https://www.davisandshirtliff.com/water-pumps/product/397-ds-17-10. For the not so nerdy readers, a submersible pump is just a device which lies on the bottom of the borehole continuously pumping up water.)