Water shortage.

Letter from Graham to David 26 June 1975 –

We have a serious water shortage at Alliance because of leakage from the mains supply pipe. There has been intermittent trouble for a long time and a new pipe has been partly laid. Now the trouble is worse the work has been speeded up. I have been fetching water in a 4 gallon container; it was not hard work because I carried it most of the way in the minibus but it is a tedious job.

We were well aware how lucky we were to have water on tap in our house. Many Kenyans did not, and still do not. Thatks for the photo: Capacity Development of Water and Environmental Services (CADWES) Research Team, Tampere University of Technology (TUT), Tampere, Finland. www.cadwes.com/ as viewed on Flickr.

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