Today we realized that several of our reagents for our water quality kit broke in transit. This was very unfortunate, as there was an entire gammut of tests we would have liked to run. So we pooled the reagents that we still have and came up with a contingency plan. We can still run several MPN tests on the community wells and one MPN test on the SODIS treated water. This will give us at least some good data to start with. I am feeling very good about the decision to bring a water quality kit, because from everyone we have spoken with, it appears that the labs available to run water quality tests for the public are not reliable. So it will be interesting to compare our results with those we have previously had analyzed at the laboratory.
In regards to our translator issues, we contacted a local NGO in the Ongole area that one of the EWB-LA members had worked with previously, and it appears that they will be able to find us a new translator and contractor. We will know more once we get to Ongole.
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