Our wonderful partners are working on a national holiday to help us to gather more data before our Town Hall meeting tomorrow morning. Because our time is now short, we are experimenting more with taxis and other types of transportation so that we can split up and cover more ground. Mike started early with draw down tests of the two "bore holes" in the system (known to us as deep wells). He is doing this not only to gather data but to train the Ghana Water Company staff in the process. Meanwhile, Gary and Gail finished "as- builting" the system components, a labor-intensive process, helped largely by the students last week. Colleen and Rod starting tying in all the local stand-pipes and shallow wells across the distribution system while Ravyn made the final preparations for the Town Hall meeting tomorrow. Probably our fullest day, tomorrow starts with the meeting in the morning where we will be all helping to facilitate a discussion on water and sanitation and hope that the outcome will result in a memo of understanding between us and the community. Afterward, Colleeen and Gary go off to Takoradi to give a lecture to 1000 engineering students in Takoradi while the rest of us meet with the King and Municipal Chief Executive to close out things here. We will conclude our time in Axim with a party on the beach, where we hope to thank those that have been so helpful to us in our work. We depart for Accra on Wednesday morning, stopping at the "canopy walk" north of Cape Coast, so may be out of contact for a few days until we land there. Stay tuned for the next segment soon...
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