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- Hello and welcome
to "Jesus For Asia NOW."
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I'm Natalie Wood
and my husband, John,
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is with me today for this story.
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Hi, love. - Hi
Darling, how are you?
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- I'm doing fine.
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Today we're
talking about a country
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that we never talked
about before on the show.
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- That's right,
brand new country for us.
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- And this is a
really powerful story.
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- Yes. - What
are we talking about?
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- Well we get to
travel into Bangladesh
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with some
missionaries that we sponsored
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from a different country.
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They didn't come the
U.S., we've been in India
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since the beginning of the
ministry, for over 15 years now,
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and have never gone to
Bangladesh, always wanted to.
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We have some really good
friends in the Philippines
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and their
friends had gone there.
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They are nurses,
and they've gone there
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and done these health
assessments and helping these
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villages with
their health needs.
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While they were there
they discovered a real need,
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and that need is that
they discovered these people
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with skin diseases and
other internal diseases
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that they traced back
to their water supply.
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So they researched into a
little bit of their water supply
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and realized that this is
the source of a lot of problems.
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And so they asked
about can they dig wells,
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and they're like, "Yes."
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So, how much does it cost?
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It's super cheap!
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And so we learned
about this and say,
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"We want to be
involved with this.
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"Our donors, our supporters
have already donated funds
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"for wells and we had some money
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"that we could
allocate towards digging wells."
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So we sent them back
from the Philippines back
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to Bangladesh for a whole month
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and they
drilled 13 wells. - Wow!
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And we've got a number of
videos and so as we go through
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this episode we'll learn a
little more about the need,
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and a little more
about the need, and the help.
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But why is clean
water such a big deal?
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Are there many
places in the world
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that don't have clean water,
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don't have access to good water?
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- Oh yeah, this is
one of the basic needs
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and I don't
remember the numbers,
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but there is almost a
billion people in the world
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that don't have
access to clean water.
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And that's a huge deal.
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What's amazing
about this particular kind
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of project is
it's so easy to fix.
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It's so easy to drill a
well and provide a clean water.
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It's just a matter
of getting out there
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and finding where the need is
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and then drilling a well there.
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- Well let's show our first
video now 'cause that talks
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about the situation. - Okay.
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(gentle music)
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(gentle music)
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- We stay in Rotiga
village, they have only one.
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This family also use this well
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and some people come
here to use this water.
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They also use this well
for washing and cooking.
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If we see this water,
this color is not good
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and have little iron and others.
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The color not good.
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You can see, the
smell is not good.
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Not clean water!
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(gentle music)
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(speaking foreign language)
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- Precious children
there at the end, aren't they?
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They were throwing
water at each other.
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So cute!
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- Let me ask you a question.
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If I told you I was gonna
take our dishes from lunch
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and go down to that pond
and wash the dishes there,
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what would you tell me?
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- Don't! - Probably just tell me
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to stay down there
the rest of our lives.
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- Just become a frog!
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(laughing)
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It's really gross.
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It's really, and to think about
this was their only option.
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'Cause they knew the well
water that they had wasn't good.
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And we'll be talking
about that some more.
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But that's the difference,
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that was a shallow
well that they had.
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And then what we've dug
for them now is much deeper.
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Over twice as deep. - Yeah.
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- In some cases, three times.
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- Yeah, it's 150, 200
feet versus 40 or 50 feet.
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And when they can only
go down to 40 or 50 feet,
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they run into arsenic
and iron in the water.
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It was hard to see when he
cupped his hands like that,
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but you could see
little flecks in the water.
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And this is what's
causing the problems
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with the people
and their health.
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- Right, so the next
video shows some of the effects
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of this
contaminated water. - Correct.
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(gentle music)
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- I've been visiting different
villages here in Bangladesh,
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and most of the patients here
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really have
problems with skin diseases.
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I noticed that
eight out of 10 patients
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really have this condition.
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I noticed scabies, ring
worms, fungal infections,
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and some lesions
all over their body
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and some in their private areas.
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I think the
factors that contributed
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to these cases
could be their water.
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Because they have
not safe water here,
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it's really not clean.
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And they have problems with
improper disposal of garbage.
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The water problem here is
really an all-pervading norm
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and it has caused
a lot of allergies
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and also internal
problems within them.
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Most of them also have
stomach pains, stomach problems,
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and also it
manifested externally.
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They have pimples,
acne, and also skin problems
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all over their body.
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(gentle music)
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In order to have safe water
here, it's really important
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to have deep well,
at least 150 feet deep.
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And they do have their
own wells here, but it's only,
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roughly, 50 feet
and that is considered
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as contaminated water.
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They cannot
afford deep wells here,
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it's quite expensive for them.
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That's why they only
settle with shallow wells.
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Even if they have medicines,
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but their water
is still not clean,
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it will still
contribute to their illnesses.
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So that is why I
really praise God,
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because Jesus For Asia
sponsored the deep wells here
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and I can see that
people are so happy.
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Some of them,
it's their first time
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to really taste clean water.
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(gentle music)
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- Wow. - Yeah.
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- That's really sad that
they had so many skin diseases
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and you think about, like
she said, internal things.
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Like what is really
going on inside their bodies
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from drinking this water?
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And swimming in it and bathing
in it and all that stuff.
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Washing dishes in
it, cooking with it.
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- Right.
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- What is going on inside?
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Because they have the choice
between the contaminated well
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and this pond that--
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- Is contaminated, it's unclean.
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And washing their
dishes in that pond,
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as opposed to
washing it in the well,
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that well must be that bad
for them to wash it in the pond.
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The water from
the well looks cleaner
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but they're still
washing in the pond.
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- They know that
it's causing sicknesses.
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- Yeah, arsenic
is not a pleasant--
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- No, thankfully
it's trace amounts
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or many would have died already.
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- Yeah, but even trace
amounts, it builds up over time.
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- Right.
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- But you could see our
missionaries there working
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with the people and
assessing the people.
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Really treated them
with love and kindness
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and you can see the look
in the eyes of the people
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that were
receiving that attention
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and how much
they appreciated that.
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They looked they were
in pain having to deal
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with these skin
diseases and the other issues
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that they're
having to deal with.
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It must be miserable. - Right.
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So as you said earlier,
we were able to dig 13 wells.
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We're really thankful
because that's 13 areas
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that didn't have access to
clean water before, they do now.
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- And what that does is
it gives a good will towards
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our faith and opens
doors to show people
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that there's somebody
that cares about them.
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And they are more
willing then to listen
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to what we have to tell them.
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- Right, which
is wonderful. - Yes.
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- Now this next video is a
video of them cleaning fish
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and this at one
of the new wells.
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So I can't imagine doing
this in a place where there was
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so much dirt and
gravel in the first place.
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All right, let's play that now.
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(metal pans scraping)
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(water splashing)
(metal pans clanging)
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This is how they
clean their fish.
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Since they don't have a
refrigerator, they buy small
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fish and then free them in
the pond and then when they're
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hungry, they go catch them
with their nets and eat them.
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(gentle scraping)
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(water splashing)
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- So they throw
the fish in the pond?
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That's their
refrigerator? - Yep!
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- A living
preservative-- - Right!
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That way they keep
them and then they can get
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them a few at a time.
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- Oh okay, well
that's pretty cool.
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The topography of
Bangladesh is unique
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because it's
just a big flat delta.
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So the water
doesn't move very fast.
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A lot of water comes through,
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it's the end of
the river Ganges,
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and so it's flat
and it's waterlogged.
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And so these ponds that
you see, they're very stagnant.
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That's one of the reasons why
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you see all that
green slime in there.
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The water just
doesn't move through.
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It's not like living in
the foothills of the Sierras
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or something, where the water's
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always flowing and
everything is clean.
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It's all stagnant.
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But that's also one of
the reason why you don't have
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to go down very
deep to find good water.
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But if you go down a
little ways, you find water
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that hasn't been filtered
by the dirt and the sand,
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and that's why you
get the contamination.
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If you go down 150 feet
then it's cleaner water.
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- Okay, we've got another
video that talks about that.
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(pump handle
creaking) (water splashing)
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(gentle music)
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(gentle music)
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- As the waters
looks clean, they think
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that this water
is clean and safer.
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Most of the people use
ponds for washing hands
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and washing dresses
and washing their dishes.
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But they do not know
the effect of this washing
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because they are
very laymen about health.
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They think any well is good.
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Even most of the
people of this village,
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they use the shallow well.
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And very few have deep wells.
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They think that as water
comes from deeper in the earth,
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and so is clean,
whether it's shallow or deep.
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- Maybe other villages, one
village maybe use one deep well.
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Rich family only use deep well,
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and needy family use
50 or 60 feet deep wells.
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These kinds of wells
have arsenic problem.
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And are having health problem
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and this kind of problem
with these type of people.
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160 or 200 deep wells,
cost approximately 20,000 taka,
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or 230 U.S. dollar.
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They have no deep wells, they
cannot because it is costly.
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Most of the
people cannot afford it
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as they are poor
and needy people.
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(gentle music)
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- An expensive
well is $230. - Right.
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(laughing)
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That shows the poverty
that they are in right now.
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- And you know,
the cost of a well,
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we talk about
this one being cheap,
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because in India some of
them are a lot more expensive.
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And so we just say, on average,
how much does a well cost?
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- The wells that we
have drilled in India,
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they are like $1,200.
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Because they have to
bring out the big truck
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with the big well
drilling apparatus,
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they go down seven,
eight, nine hundred feet deep.
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And so they're quite
expensive, like $1,200 dollars.
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Whereas as the wells up there,
we got a video showing how
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they drill the
wells, but it's all by hand.
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No mechanical device, no
truck, no gasoline machine.
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- They use water and
poles and cow dung and yeah.
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But we'll have a video
about that in few minutes.
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This next video that we have,
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talks about another area where
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they discovered
a need for a well.
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- [John] Yes.
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(gentle music)
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- Hindu people burn dead
body and now we have plan
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to install a deep well
with the support of you.
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This deep well
mainly used by the people,
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those who come here for the
purpose of burning dead body.
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There are hundred
of people will come
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and when they come they need
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to drink water
during hot weather.
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Also need to wash their hands
as they touched the dead body.
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One deep well, very necessary.
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There is one local market,
so local people come here
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and they can also
use this deep well.
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We can see the wood that
Hindu people burn the body.
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And the body is
automatically become like,
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what is it, charcoal.
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After that, they
throw the ashes in the pond.
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- [Interviewer] And so
where do they wash their hands?
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- Nowadays, currently,
they are using this water
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and as you can see,
this water is not good.
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Also dead body
ashes would go there.
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So you can see that
this is not hygienic water.
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(gentle music)
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- They come to this
area after someone dies
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to burn the body.
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And of course,
while they are together,
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they have a meal right
after the burning is complete.
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But the ashes from the
person go into the pond
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and then they wash
their hands and they eat food
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and then they wash
their hands in the same pond.
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So, they asked if
they can drill a well there
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to facilitate people having
access to clean water when
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they came to this area and so
we were happy to provide that.
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- And that's just done as
a service, a kind service.
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But they put a
little marble stone there
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with John 11:25 and 26.
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Which is Jesus talking
about being the resurrection.
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- And the life, that's right.
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- And in this next
video we get to see how
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they drill the well
which is really amazing to me
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because they use
no electric drills,
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no mechanically
operated drills--
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- Can we just show them? - Sure.
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- All right.
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(gentle music)
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(chisel thudding) (gentle music)
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To prepare to drill,
they create a miniature pond.
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They put the 40 buckets
of water into the pond...
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and then they dig a small hole.
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The water goes
down into the hole
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and is suctioned
back up by the pipe
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and goes back to the
miniature pond again.
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(water sloshing)
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The tools they use to dig
the well are 11 12 foot pipes.
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They also use a
four foot metal pipe
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to mount the hand pump
on once they're finished.
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They haul 40 buckets of water
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and use 20 kilos of cow manure.
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(water sloshing) (gentle music)
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(motor whirring)
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(gentle music)
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This process
uses a lot of water.
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It takes five to seven hours
for them to drill the well.
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It takes them eight
hours to haul the water
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to maintain the pond.
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(gentle music)
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They use the 20
kilos of cow manure
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to make the water thicker so
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they will use
less water to drill.
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They say it saves
them 50% of the water if
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they use cow manure.
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(gentle music)
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These wells create
good will and open the door
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for us to follow
up with Bible studies,
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Bible worker
training, and schools.
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(gentle music)
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(water splashing) (gentle music)
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- So it's really interesting.
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It looks like they
have this pond and they have
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this little hole
there they put the pipe in
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and the water goes
down into that hole.
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And then they have somebody
with a rope that lifts the pipe
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and the rope is tied to a
lever that they go like this.
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So they have
one guy-- - Pumping.
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- Pulling the pipe up and
another guy puts his hand on it
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and when he pulls it up, it
suctions the water down into
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that hole and then he
let's it off, like this,
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and they drop it down
and that water squirts out.
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So it's like the
water is doing the digging.
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- The drilling, yeah.
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- And so it couldn't be done
if there was a lot of rocks,
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obviously, in the ground.
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But in this area there is no
rocks, it's just all sediment
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because it's all
just one big delta.
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Bangladesh is a big river delta.
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So it's all filled with sediment
and it's very soft dirt.
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- Wow, and it's pretty amazing,
that's pretty ingenious,
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whoever came up with that idea.
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I wonder if that's
pretty similar to how they used
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to drill wells in Bible times
or they did it the other way
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where they got inside
and made it big enough
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for a person to be inside.
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- Well just recently I
visited Jacobs Well in Israel
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and yeah it was dug by hand
and they didn't have PVC pipes
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and steel pipes and-- -
So they had to climb down
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in it with a
shovel of some kind.
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- I love that
other part where they
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were putting the
pipes together by melting
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with wheat or some
straw, they put it on fire
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and they melted
just a little bit the top
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of the one PVC pipe and
dropped the other PVC pipe
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in it and then it
shrunk up, so it was bonded.
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- Yeah, plumbers here
don't use that kind of tool.
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- No.
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(laughing)
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It's pretty cool! - Yeah.
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- And that keeps the cost down.
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- Right and it's a
smoother connection for them
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to shove down
further into the dirt.
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- Right, can you imagine
going down 150 feet like that.
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- No! - You can see why
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it takes so long. -
Yeah, that's a lot of work.
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- It's amazing it goes
only in five or six hours.
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150 feet in five or six hours.
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It's a unique situation.
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And there is a
lot of need there.
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- While our friends were there,
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they discovered there's
another need, and what is that?
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- They discovered
a number of churches
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that have been closed.
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They've been
built, but the project
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only lasted a little
while to support the pastors,
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Bible workers, to
maintain those churches,
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maintain services
in those churches.
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So after ten or 15
years, that program ended
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and the churches still remained,
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but there's no longer
people coming to the churches,
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no longer people
worshiping in the churches.
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We also discovered a
school, a school building,
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that's no longer in use.
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- But that's the
topic for the next episode
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and we don't want
to give that away.
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So at this time I
would like to thank you
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for joining us today and
for learning a little more
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with us about the
needs in Bangladesh.
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There's a lot more
villages that need clean water
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from what we've been told.
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I'm just so
thankful we have been able
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to do these 13 wells already.
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I thank you to the
donors that have given
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for the Clean Water Project
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so that we can offer
these people clean water.
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But you know what?
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I just ask for your prayers
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that we can offer
them living water.
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That they would
come to know the God
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that loves them so
much and died for them.
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If you'd like to get
involved you can contact
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us at Jesus for Asia, PO
Box 1221 Collegedale, TN 37315.
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Call us at (423) 413-7321
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or visit our
website at Jesus4asia.org.
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May God richly bless you until
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we see you next time
on "Jesus for Asia NOW."
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(uplifting music)
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