1. The Center Earth Drill: How it came to be.

2. Started out as a simple humanitarian vacation.

3. An orphanage where scarce and contaminated water was so devastating.

4. Effects of contaminated water.

5. So little, so late.

6. Fetching water for the school.

7. Waiting for your turn

8. Girls bringing water to school

9. Still waiting

10. Not long to wait now.

11. Without water a government will not assign a doctor

12. Where were you born?

13. Their birthing room.

14. Water diseases will kill

15. The second part of the equation is the water they are fetching is killing them! O

16. Time not spent in school

17. This is their clean water

18. 45 lbs of contaminated water, please help!

19. Would you drink this ?

20. . Center Earth Drill was launched

21. Many ideas, many thoughts.

22. More creative thought.

23. Not easy to create a master piece.

24. With two weeks left

25. The Center Earth Human Powered The Center Earth Human Powered Water Drill.

26. It works great in most soil conditions

27. Tucked neatly into the back of a small pickup.

28. Do you really want this expense and headache?

29. Looking for water

30. Our first test

31. Oh what a borehole it makes!

32. Casing our first well in Africa

33. Securing the lowering cable

34. Casing secured in the borehole.

35. Installing the well pump

36. Installing the cylinder to the pump

37.  884 million people lack access to safe water supplies; approximately one in eight people.  3.75 million people die each year from water- related disease and 84% are children. That is more than AIDS, malaria, and measles combined.  Diarrhea alone causes 1.4 million children’s deaths every year. The ability to bring clean safe drinking water to impoverished nations is the number one concern of governments and NGO’s. Yet the problem still remains wholly unsolved. Why should we care?

38. This is why