Fixing Garden Project Water System

When we came back from Windhoek after our Peace Corps conference we brought some gifts for the people in our garden project compliments of Dave Kurz. While he was here we conferred about problems we were having with the water system at the garden we came up with a few possible solutions. On our way to Windhoek we got a ride with an Afrikaaner who worked in construction. He told me the best place to go to find the necessary piping, clamps and whatsoever for plumbing. I had already been to every hardware store in Windhoek that I knew about so it was great that he gave me this headsup. The place is called Sinclair Services and wasn't very hard to find. With their help I was able to get everything we needed to replace some of the current water system. Here are pictures of some things we repaired.

Here are the pictures of the water system repair at the garden. Everything worked out well and the system is up and running which is good. The first picture is of the pipe and clamps connected to the water pump.

This leaked a tiny bit at first but then I put on two clamps pinching in different directions and it didn't leak. The second picture if of the "union" system which would be clamped onto the existing black hose and then could be threaded onto the water pump without turning the black hose.
Luckily the 1st idea worked so we haven't needed this one yet. The next picture shows one of the industrial clamps we were able to buy that tighten using a wrench instead of screwdriver. What a difference a clamp makes!

This pictures shows how one of the boys had already broken the air filter:(
(not irreparably but still...cmon people!)

Basically the wing-nut it attached to the pole which goes into the filter housing. Inside the pole is
attached to some plastic tubing and was manufactured inside the mold with a bulge to keep it from coming out. Well it seems the boy just kept turning the wing-nut on top until he had ripped the pole out of its fitted hole, never to work properly again.

Tomorrow we will be traveling to Windhoek for Rachel to get her giardia followup checkup and for me to do all the shopping and quotations to be sent to the US embassy for the Hostel Activity Center Project. Oh yeah I don't know if I told you but the Hostel Activity Center Project is going to happen after all. We will be buying a ton of tables and chairs, theatre equipment, sports equipment, craft supplies and reading materials. We have about 5 teachers on the committee now plus Lindsey the new PC health volunteer in Nkurenkuru. Hopefully everything will work out and the kids will get to enjoy the all the new activities. Lets pray that they take care of all these things well. Now for a few days of walking around in +100 degree weather:)

Thanks,
Caleb and Rachel