George Bailey, vice president of Industrial Test Systems Inc., is very familiar with water quality testing and the significance it holds. Just because private water sources aren’t regulated the way public sources are doesn’t mean they shouldn’t be tested regularly and proficiently.
U.S. drilling industry members and two Christian charities donated equipment, supplies and expertise last May to rehabilitate and return a partially-blocked primary water well to full-capacity in Sendafa, Ethiopia. The well and its water are vital to the water quantity, health and wellbeing of Sendafa’s 15,000 residents.
Clean, accessible water — one of life’s basic necessities — saves lives around the world, but in some regions, including Africa, the Caribbean, Central America and South America, villagers walk miles to collect water from a potentially contaminated source. Missionaries improve the villagers’ quality of life by drilling community water wells.
More than 600 million people around the world lack improved drinking water sources, according to a June 2015 UNICEF and World Health Organization (WHO) report on sanitation and drinking water.
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