Water Tanker: 90 Days of Lifeline Water
Through the ninety hardest days of the drought a tanker brings treated water to the same village stops at the same hour. Your gift keeps that route running.
The tanker pulls up at the village stop at a fixed time each day. Nobody has to go searching for water.
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Water Tanker: 90 Days of Lifeline Water
Ponds and wells have dried up across Guchi district in Ethiopia's Borana zone. Families there now travel over twenty kilometres for water. In Somalia the rains failed last autumn. A jerrycan of water now costs up to a dollar. The Water Tanker keeps one route running for ninety days while the drought is at its worst. The tanker collects water from a safe source and treats it before delivering to village stops. Families receive covered jerrycans and learn how to keep the water clean. Your gift covers the water and the fuel along with the driver's wages and the jerrycans. The date and region of each finished stage are added to your account. On this page you can see photos of the tanker and its stops.
Boru herds goats near Guchi in Borana and has lost half of them since the ponds dried up. His daughters walk more than twenty kilometres to the nearest water point and then wait in line for hours. The family now drinks whatever the girls can carry home. Our local partner has placed their village on the planned tanker route.
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