Great to get out and See Some real assets

Just arrived back in Addis after 2 days out on field visits to Bishoftu and Butajira. Both villages have excellent water resources, with significant recent investment in boreholes and service reservoirs, but from there it really does go down hill, with lots of work needed on the distribution systems and water quality.

Bishoftu service reservoir

We had very productive meetings with the local utility companies and built relationships which I hope we can continue with offers of technical help and support.

Bishoftu Utility Office - Bill Payments

Spent time out in the communities meeting engineers, technicians, operators and customer. The approach to health and safety leave a lot to be desired, but we met some fantastic people. Got chatting to some kids on their way home from school with water carriers. They have to take water to clean the school and kids that are late have to clean the pit latrines. We suggest that a similar policy should be implemented at YW for colleagues who are late for meetings!!