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Three boreholes in Siaya county, and what went wrong with the first

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We have finished one of three. I want to write down what went wrong while it is fresh, because every project update I read only lists what went well. We sited the first borehole where the community leaders asked, not where the hydrogeologist recommended. It was a political decision and it was the wrong one. We hit water at a depth that makes the pump expensive to maintain. The second and third will follow the survey.
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arjun_thapaContributor·
Thank you for writing the failure down. The community politics part is real and nobody trains you for it. How did you manage the conversation about moving the next two?
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brian_otienoContributor·
Badly at first. What eventually worked was showing the maintenance cost per year rather than arguing about the survey. Money made it concrete.
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aisha_dialloNewcomer·
Noting this for our own work. We have the same tension about where to place seed storage.
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