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The Center Earth Drill: How it came to be.

The Center Earth Drill: How it came to be. Started out as a simple humanitarian vacation. An orphanage where scarce and contaminated water was so devastating. Effects of contaminated water. So little, so late. Fetching water for the school. Waiting for your turn.

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The Center Earth Drill: How it came to be.

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  1. The Center Earth Drill: How it came to be.

  2. Started out as a simple humanitarian vacation.

  3. An orphanage where scarce and contaminated water was so devastating.

  4. Effects of contaminated water.

  5. So little, so late.

  6. Fetching water for the school.

  7. Waiting for your turn

  8. Girls bringing water to school

  9. Still waiting

  10. Not long to wait now.

  11. Without water a government will not assign a doctor

  12. Where were you born?

  13. Their birthing room.

  14. Water diseases will kill

  15. The second part of the equation is the water they are fetching is killing them! O

  16. Time not spent in school

  17. This is their clean water

  18. 45 lbs of contaminated water, please help!

  19. Would you drink this?

  20. Center Earth Drill was launched .

  21. Many ideas, many thoughts.

  22. More creative thought.

  23. Not easy to create a master piece.

  24. With two weeks left

  25. The Center Earth Human Powered Water Drill. The Center Earth Human Powered

  26. It works great in most soil conditions

  27. Tucked neatly into the back of a small pickup.

  28. Do you really want this expense and headache?

  29. Looking for water

  30. Our first test

  31. Oh what a borehole it makes!

  32. Casing our first well in Africa

  33. Securing the lowering cable

  34. Casing secured in the borehole.

  35. Installing the well pump

  36. Installing the cylinder to the pump

  37. Why should we care? • 884 million people lack access to safe water supplies; approximately one in eight people. • 3.75 million people die each year from water-related disease and 84% are children. That is more than AIDS, malaria, and measles combined. • Diarrhea alone causes 1.4 million children’s deaths every year. • The ability to bring clean safe drinking water to impoverished nations is the number one concern of governments and NGO’s. Yet the problem still remains wholly unsolved.

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