Day 5 and day 6 New wells and Village meetings for more new wells

We left Mon AM for the south part of West Bengal near Digha. On the way we saw 2 new wells drilled in 2009 and then met with a village to setup a new well near Digha. The meeting was in a village with 80 families nar the Orissa border. That evening we walked the beaches and in the morning with Chai saw the sun rise over the Bay of Bengal. We came back home that day and we were able to see the conclusion of the well being drilled which we assisted with on our first. Assist is not the right word rather observed!!! It was great to see the whole technique of a well being drill by water jet. The interesting part yesterday is that they removed all of the drill tubes (steel) and continue to fill the hole with water and when all 32 lengths of 20 fooot pipe was removed thay inserted 600 feet of 1.5 inch PVC tubing with 20 feet of filter on the bottom in the well hole. The pipe was all pre assembled and with 20 people it went in the well hole in 3-4 minutes!! They would add the 100 feet of 4 inch and the pump today (wed). They will let it set for a day then pump it out. We have pics of a well finished 1 week ago and today we will see another one being drilled. I believe we have videos of almost all parts of the process (we won't see a pad being poured but I can imagine. We are here for Feb 3 and Feb 4 and off to Chennai and SUCHI on Friday.
We arrived home tonight Wed from another busy day. We saw two new wells and one being drilled. This is with a partner of SGUS in another Blaock (40 km away). We had an amazing lunch ..too much. We were entertained by a High School here HAVE supported a well in 2009..Jamitya Adarsha High School Jamitya. (Matangini Block). We will more detail later.
Ron and Toos