One of the last projects Fr. Sylvester and I tackled in Sudan was to arrange a water connection to the Mercy House compound. The entire time we've been there we've hauled water pumped from wells for both drinking and bathing. But a number of weeks ago, someone alerted us to the fact that a water line from the small town water system passed within a few blocks of Mercy House. It took a lot of phone calls (Sebastian at the town public works office was extremely helpful)and the assistance of a variety of people with different skills and abilities (plumbers, electricians, welders), and in the end a submersible pump ordered and delivered from Nairobi and installed by a technician based in Juba.
In the end, our in-ground cistern was being filled with water from the large town tank (top photo), which was itself filled with treated water from the Kinati river. And the submersible pump is primed and ready to move the water from the cistern to our above-ground tank (bottom photo). The only thing left to be done (once the skilled laborers return to Torit after the referendum) is to seal the connection from the tank to the pipe that feeds the water system of the house. Then Mercy House will have indoor running water for the next group of religious or missionaries who will reside there.
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