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Why do communities not all live on rivers or close to existing or natural water sources? Many did but water courses change and rivers dry up. Existing waterholes stop filling through watercourse re-direction, damning operations etc.

Why don’t they have the inclination to sink a well themselves? These communities are some of the poorest in the world they barely have the resources to survive. Communities cannot afford to drill their own. Even if they did who would they get to drill the wells? There are a tiny number of local rigs available for a country the size of… UNICEF provide a service but this is still a small provision. Our role is to make that provision possible by enabling local crews to charge a small amount (to provide a living for their families) for drilling wells. They will not have to pay for the rigs as we will loan them to the local crews, therefore they will have no capital costs to pass on to the communities they provide drilling services for.

What is the Government doing?