Ethiopia 2015: Diary #3 from Yorkshire Water's volunteers

Joel has completed his day of training on Asset Management which has been very successful.

There were 26 attendees (including from the Ministry of water and irrigation and the regional offices) from 20 different towns throughout Ethiopia and 6 Wateraid Ethiopia staff.

All attendees were very engaged and a lot of networking took place. A number of questions were raised and they are definitely wanting to move forward, improve assets and have a much improved way of data management.

An opening comment from one of the attendees was 'we want to move forward by choice not by chance' which assured us we are in the correct area covering the correct problems.

Frehiwot, 10, walks over half hour and crosses a river to get water she knows to be unclean, yet the only source of drinkable water her community has