Down the road the city council has had so much trouble with break-ins that they put up an eight foot wall around their property.  But they ran into an obstacle.  Our water pipe out to the college lay right in the way of their proposed wall.  Hakuna matata (no problem).  The construction workers simply removed two twenty feet sections of pipe that were in their way.  No matter that water was coming through the pipe; nor was any thought given to whom the water might be intended for.  They just plugged the pipe and went about their business building the wall.

In a few days our water tank at the college was ran dry.  The city water company checked the junction where our pipe runs into the main line and it was fine, so they refused to help us any more.  Starting at the college, we began digging up the pipe ourselves.  We had dug up about 600 feet of pipe back to the city council wall when a plumber at the city council came out and said, “Oh, are these your pipes?”  The city council had already paid the construction company and they refused to come out and fix the problem they had made, so we had to bear the cost of the repairs and rerouting of the pipe, but we are back in business.

Lance Patterson, Kenya