"It is such a pleasure to see the communities coming together to work on such an important issue and the sweat and labor that they contribute."

Founded by volunteers in 1986 in Santa Fe, New Mexico, Waterlines now has grown to involve scores of men and women, in the US and abroad, who offer their expertise in small-scale drinking water projects in developing countries.

""Now I can go early to the market to work rather than gathering water. We are well from typhoid."