All's well that ends well....

We faltered out of the gate this morning as the technology gremlins did their best to slow us down. Our Internet connection was down, cell phone communication was lost and even our hot water was out (although this seems to happen daily). To boot, our hopes for meeting with the Engineer in Chief of the Public Health Engineering office were dashed when we were informed that he would not be available to meet until Monday. Since we are leaving for Agra on Saturday we will not be able to conduct this interview. As the morning progressed however, things began to fall back into place and we were able to work on our report.



After lunch we headed over to the United Nations Madhya Pradesh Office for a meeting with their general manager, Mr. Manish Mathur. This meeting provided us with important input for our report and will help us build a strong case for Water for People's expansion into Madhya Pradesh. Mr. Mathur agreed that of all of the states in India, Madhya Pradesh has the greatest need for relief in water and sanitation. We all left the meeting a little "jazzed."



Since we still had time left with our driver we stopped off at the State Museum on the way back to our hotel. We were amazed at size of their collection of antiquities, and also astonished by the ages of the relics. Below is a photograph of a water recharge system dating back to the 2nd century B.C. We couldn't quite figure out how it worked, but thought it was appropriate for our blog.