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WorldWide Drilling Resource ® is proud to be a member of these international associations. New Zealand Drillers Federation, Inc. www.nzdrillersfederation.co.nz Ontario Groundwater Association Tel: 519-245-7194 Fax: 519-245-7196 ogwa@ogwa.ca • www.ogwa.ca Australian Drilling Industry Association adia@adia.com.au British Colmubia Ground Water Assn. Tel: 604-530-8934 Fax: 604-530-8934 secretary@bcgwa.org • www.bcgwa.org Alberta Water Well Drilling Association Tel: 780-386-2335 awwda@xplornet.com Atlantic Water Well Association Tel: 888-242-4440 Fax: 902-435-0089 nsgwa@ns.aliantzinc.ca • www.nsgwa.ca 49 WorldWide Drilling Resource ® OCTOBER 2014 Water for Life International by Tim Rasmussen This was written by Berny Leonardo. He is the only employee of Water for Life International [H2O as he writes it]. He works for us in Guatemala and is very busy maintaining and keeping the pumps and wells operating. We now have wells and pumps in over 60 villages, and serve more than 20,000 people with the clean water we have been able to supply with the kind help of our volun- teers. We need your continued help and support. Berny wrote: El Pato is one of the villages where H2O has been invited to give the vital and precious good liquid for life. It is located some 470 km [292 miles] from the Guatemalan city. To get there, it will take you some 11 hours by road. There the Mayan quiche’s in dry season will normally take them 1.5 hours to go and bring some water for their home use. After some volunteers from H2O arrived with trucks and drilling system, they had it real easy. For them, the white men brought joy and less work to have nice clean water. This year, the villagers were happier. Instead of having one pump, they had two pumps. Thanks to some good, kind- hearted persons, a solar pump too. But they did not know the dry season was going to be harder. The demand for water was more and the first hand pump broke. So they call H2O and there they went. From the base where the equipment is to the El Pato village is almost 3 hours driving in, and another 3 hours again to get back. The road is terrible, big holes and rough rocks. Every- thing was going well until we came to a place where the truck stuck into a mud (hole in the road) rod and underneath was a big rock hidden. In several at- tempts to make it go through, finally we made it. We checked that everything was ok, and so it was. After that, we drove 1 hour more and finally they were waiting for us. So we got to work, and were there for more than 5 hours work- ing the equipment, with all working well. So the pumps all started to work fine, got something to drink. The sun was about 42ºC [107ºF] and we need a good amount of water for drinking. Everyone was so happy and we started back home after 4:30 p.m. We got back to the main about 7:30 p.m., stopped for about 45 minutes and had some food. When we checked the truck, there was a stream of water run- ning out from it. We spot it with many things and got to the shop. Again it started to pour out water like a river and shortly not a drop of water was in the radiator. The crack was so big it would not keep a drum of water for 10 minutes, but we thank our loving God he made it possible so we and the equipment can reach home safely. Every day he makes a different miracle so we can keep on serving and make someone else happier. If you would like to help, please contact Gary Bartholomew at 509-466-5075 or 509-939-1941 Tim admin@ worldwidedrillingresource.com