Aqueduct Water

Water, a necessary part of life. There is a lot of it here in Costa Rica, it comes in many shapes and sizes. From it’s mighty rivers, magnificent waterfalls, trickling creeks and almost daily rains, we have water here in Costa Rica. Having water at the house has been a different problem all together. At times God gives you what you need all at one time and other times He gives you what you need only when you need it. It was that way with electicity. It took us months to get electricity to our home site. The day we were ready to start putting up the house we had electricity. Our water needs worked almost the same way.

We were blessed with permission to use water from a spring for building our house. We were going to have to obtain water from the aqueduct for drinking water before we moved in. We had two options, both which would have to be funded by us and we did not find either of them very appealing. The first option was obtaining water down below and pumping the water up the mountain side. This would have required several pumps, electricity and tanks to get the water to our house. The second was getting water from above but the cost of this project was very steep.

Several weeks before moving we were told the same water we have been using for construction we now had permission to use it in the house. This gave us more time to figure out how to get safe water for drinking and everyday use. How excited we were to have free fresh water in our house. We were blessed but it did have a downside at times. When we got heavy rains our fresh spring water would become a bit dirty, ok a lot dirty. After some heavy rains our hose and bucket system would be dislodged from the creek to find out hrs later we do not have any water. We ran out of water several times. We would have to go up the mountain side and figure out what the problem was. Sometimes the hose was dislodged, other times there was air in the hose and the water would not pass, and other times it was debris and rocks that were the problem.

Several months ago, the president of the aqueduct came back to us with another proposal. After a couple of weeks of negotiating we agreed upon a solution. We would donated funds for half the project and the other half of the funds would be paid back to us with the use of water. We have all the water we can use for the next fifteen years. So on the 15^th of September, Independence Day for Costa Rica, we were hooked up to drinkable and clean water at the house. AMEN

Hand dug trench going to our house.

From the road up our hill!

To the house!

After 45 days of work, we have water!