Five Islands in Two Weeks, Part I - Lombok, Java, Sulawesi
Lombok Island Last week we were in Lombok with the Humanitarian missionaries covering two projects, clean water and school rebuilding/rennovation. Although Indonesia generally has quite a lot of rain, there are some places where droughts can occur causing shortages of clean water. In Lombok the Church worked with local government to prioritize 7 locations for drilling deep wells and building water distribution systems to serve the local population. These systems each include a deep well with a pump along with multiple plastic water reservoirs that are filled from from the well. The reservoirs are located in various places around the village where people can bring their containers to get clean water. The people are so grateful for these systems. The residents we interviewed told us that before they had these systems they had to boil all the water and still they would often get sick. This water comes from very deep in the ground, over 100 meters in some cases, and the people can drink