Approximately 35 families live in this far flung community of Colorado Barra. Perched on the Caribbean shore, three and a half hours from La Ceiba but worth the drive to see a lagoon filled with manatees. Well, we actually didn't see them because you couldn't really see anything in the water but the kids assured us they were there.
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This is called SODIS and it is probably the cheapest and easiest way to make potable water. You only have to have sun, clear water and a plastic bottle. The UV radiation of the sun does the rest if you let is sit out there from sunrise to sunset. The biggest downfall to this is that it does not make the water taste good by removing the organics but it won't make you sick.
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The poorer houses take there water from shallow wells. Here you see a shower on the very left and a shallow well at the other end of the pipe. The problem with this picture is that after the shower all the water pools to the right and eventually seeps back into the well, along with all the chicken, pig and person contamination.
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Here we are loading the filters into the truck. We can fit about 40 per load and have an arrangement with the municipalities to pay the cost of transportation.
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Here is another great picture demonstrating poor hygiene. You can see the lady cooking bread in the back and the well to the left. Oh, and it would be hard to walk without tripping on the pigs.
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This was just a good picture Rasa took
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We ran into an entirely new problem here. It floods frequently so all the houses are up on stilts so we had to make sure to reinforce each house to support a 300lb filter. Having to find planks of wood for each house made for some slow installations.
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