Thirteen flooded wells restored in a day.

A team from RAM and Guyana Water Inc. worked together on Saturday to treat and pump out thirteen more contaminated wells in the Lethem area. Pictured here is the team moving the equipment across to the next site in the flood- affected Tabatinga housing scheme.

Aubry Roberts was the visiting engineer heading up the efforts as dozens of families have come forward to RAM requesting the service after days of record flooding. Most of the hand-dug household wells are their primary source of drinking water and are often located in proximity to pit latrines - that distance limited by the size of a house lot.

Follow up visits will be conducted including the collection and testing of water samples at each of the affected sites. The mapping work by RAM volunteers in the six flooded neighborhoods of Lethem has formed the basis for this intervention.

Please consider supporting RAM to extend these services to the many remote villages whose drinking water was contaminated by flood waters this rainy season.