I design developments and utility systems for a living think I am dumb or incapable? I am a PE. Your point is what? Mine being the aquifer has been there for thousands of years and it is 2012 and they(Who did discover it bTW?) just now discovered it. If technology and political stability was a little more widely spread (I blame the lack of adoption of colonial systems by natives here) maybe this problem would have sorted itself out by now. You can’t make someone recognize a superior form of culture. Think for a second here. Anyway this aquifer lies below a salty one. I am assuming encased wells to the depth of the aquifer. Can your buddies do this with hand tools? No depth mentioned in the article.
“I design developments and utility systems for a living think I am dumb or incapable? I am a PE. Your point is what? Mine being the aquifer has been there for thousands of years and it is 2012 and they(Who did discover it bTW?) just now discovered it.”
And I fly helicopters and wear a digital watch, but I could not keep myself alive for 6 weeks in their environment.
Folks in Africa are no more or less intelligent than you or I, they just have a different set of skills. We have been blessed with a stable government and culture and great access to information.
It hasn’t been that long since we were ignorant about resources under the ground.
“Yes, petrol (or gasoline as it is known in the US) was not only a waste product, it was an unprofitable nuisance.
During the mid to late 1800s industrializing countries (such as America) were throwing crude (raw unprocessed) oil into rivers.
In the 1850s, crude oil was tossed into the Kanawha River (West Virginia, USA). Then up until about 1880, petrol (its lighter by-product) was dumped into the Cuyahoga River (Ohio, US).”
http://www.wotwaste.com/waste-articles/industrial-waste/was-petrol-really-once-a-waste-product?print=1&tmpl=component