Let me assure you that this has become a real asset to the ministry. While we were there in May, the truck was kept operating carrying water to people day and night. This is the hottest time of year and they are in a drought. Many areas nearby had experienced no rain and the paper reported that people had been dying because of dehydration in some remote areas. The city itself has only three water trucks with tanks the same size as the one I.E.R.F. now owns with which to supplement the limited supply of water people in the town receive.
City water is supplied to residents for only one or two hours a day each morning.
If water pots are not filled during that time, it is too bad because the water in the lines is turned off. They did this around the clock. The hot weather and drought created an acute shortage and the time was shortened for obtaining water in the mornings. On one occasion I watched as dozens of people brought their stainless steel and brass pots to be filled up and most of the people seemed extremely grateful for the water. Rev. Joseph is the leader of all the local Christian groups.