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To do it quickly, because every second youre not forcing water into the bottom, thats a second that your dirt and sand could be collapsing on your pipes. whooo! >> we got the bit and the pipes free. hopefully we can work fast and keep the bit moving and water flowing so it wont happen again. >> go down, go down. we have water! yeah! #. >> we have now hit the water table. so even though its pretty late, we got to put the casing in as fast as we can and keep that hole from collapsing.

Aquafir, and the other one is basically equipment. a drilling rig forces a series of pipes into the ground with a drill bit secured on the end. water is pumped into the bore hole through the pipes so that the sand and dirt that is loosened by the drill are forced out of bore hole. creating space to continue drilling. pipes are added one by one until the aquafir is reached. >> our bit is completely buried. >> when youre changing a pipe over or for a minute you stop forcing water into the hole tha...

Were supposed to only have 5,000 in this camp. it seems like theres quite a bit more than that. >> as of last night, we have about 20,000. >> youre calling this camp a transit center, because youre not wanting the people to stay for a long, long period of time? >> the idea of a transit center is that people arrive first, they get the basic services, water, health and shelter and then they move on to one of our settlement where is they get land. ideally here people will only stay for two to three...

Right now we got a drill bit and about 50 feet of pipe stuck in the ground. a place like this, were right near the edges of a river, so any time you got sandy soil, you got the problem of it collapsing in on itself. lets move some dirt first, get some of the weight off. problems happen and they happen quite often. and so you have to figure out how to get around those problems and to keep pushing forward. >> gonzalez had a great idea to take forced water, and slowly, slowly, slowly pound the sand...

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>> were supposed to only have a capacity of about 12,000 in this camperi camp, right? seems like theres quite a bit more than that right now. >> as of last night, we have close to 20,000. thats nearly twice as many as we should be holding. >> youre calling this camp a transit center, because youre not wanting the people to stay for a long, long period of time? >> the idea of a transit center its somewhere relatively close to border where people arrive first and get the basic services, so water, ...

City just a little bit, it absolutely feels like youre in the middle of nowhere. we are heading up the river to a little village which actually translates directly into the miraculous or the miracle. we have got the amazon river and all these tributaries that are leading into the amazon river, so theres water all over the place, but that water is absolutely filthy, theyre bathing, theyre washing their dishes, all right there in the same water source and thats the thing thats causing them to get ...

That the sand could be collapsing on your bit and your pipes. whooo! >> we got the bit and the pipes free. hopefully we can work fast and keep the bit moving and water flowing so it wont happen again. >> go down, go down. yeah! even though its prettyilate, we have to put the casing in as fast as we can and keep the hole from collapsing.

Are broken. >> it would be very good if you can fix it for us and we can get water. >> well get the top of the head here, pull the heavy pipes out of the ground, clamp down and again begin to lift everything up. awesome. >> this is the clamp here. >> pull! >> dont drop it on my head. im the only one not wearing a hat. >> the local people on the ground are a amazingly capable. sometimes all they need is a little bit of training. that way when cambodians are getting help, theyre seeing their own p...

>> hi, how are you? >> im okay. your name is doc? my name is jaz. >> nice to meet you. sarah? nice to meet you, sarah. >> has she been having any stomach problems from the water? >> at first, we were having a stomach problem. we tried to buy some medicine, but we dont know whats going on. >> okay. so you havent been able to get the medicine? >> yeah. >> oh, man. >> when i first got into this work, it was all kind of confusing to me a little bit, like how is it that water is killing so many peopl...