Five months after a water tank at Ojom Health centre II was repaired, workers say the facility has broken down again, adding to the rainwater storage problems in Katine, north-eastern Uganda, reported on this website last week.
Chandelier lights flicker, rainwater pours in, bats fly around, furniture is broken, food scraps are ground into once-valuable carpets.
It is only one strand of Amref's water plans for this year, which will see two water pump mechanics trained by the end of this month, new boreholes drilled and broken ones fixed by the end of February, and 10,000-litre rainwater tanks installed in schools by Easter.
I broke the bottle of "Rainwater" that was provided free of charge.
My neighbours and I have all fallen victim to the defacement of our homes with hideous and indecipherable graffiti; we have suffered the drunken destruction of our private property, including rainwater down-pipes, garden fences, motor vehicles, and even an incident involving a broken living-room window.
PPG's new product also works by applying a layer of titanium oxide to the surface of the glass to break down dirt and force rainwater to fall evenly down the glass.
The formation of planets and stars in the universe, for example, is like "a sheet of rainwater on a windscreen breaking up into a network of droplets".
Roads also do not absorb rainwater, causing erosion, and break up natural habitats.
Part of Rainwater's charm is that its customers linger.
He filmed himself collecting rainwater to wash, he filmed men from the Ivory Coast taking on Malian men in a soccer game, he filmed what happens to men who break unwritten rules like informing the local police about the refugees' activities.
