In
the name of the intelligent, truthful, and kind Lord of the universe -- Having
free water policy for black Africa is easier than you may imagine, smarter than
present selling of water, more caring beyond humans.
African
governments and caring folks around the world should seriously consider a
different approach in helping ‘poor’ Africans.
As
the world spends billons in search for a planet with water, I want to show you
how few millions of dollars can eradicate hunger beyond Africa.
There
is a continent on earth that helped and may help humans better than many
planets may. Helping Africa and the poor
around the world is the most secure way to enter/discover heavenly planets.
Beside Agricultural purpose, the boreholes I am suggesting can be used as fire
hydrants to protect lives, wealth, and the environment from the effects of
fire.
First,
let us contrast the effects of selling water versus free water approach. The average water bill for a compound of
about ten people in The Gambia is around ten to twenty dollars per month – that
is without gardening. Presently, less
than forty per cent of compounds in The Gambia have paid water access.
How
is the over sixty per cent of Gambians using water? Mainly, free well water…
which means the little profit government makes through selling water may go
back to health subsidies for others. So a smart government that believes in
free health care for its citizens should start with free water, then tax the
healthy citizens who are well-fed through the free water policy.
Using
The Gambia as example, 11,000 strategic boreholes in this small country of only
about 11,300 sq kms can be great start.
This translates to over 11,000 year round farms/gardens, 11,000 safer
fire hydrants/’virtual fire stations’ , a drought resistant country, a better
well-fed population, more foreign
currency and less inflation, more tourists, better democracy, etc.
Even
the Gambia government can easily afford 11,000 boreholes if we understand it as
viable investment, health need, security need, etc.
Using
traditional mechanical machines, the cost of digging 11k boreholes in The
Gambia can be around twenty million dollars.
Later,
I will explain a system of digging at a fraction of the cost and time. For now, let us ask why the governments and
caring folks around the world refuse this investment?
You
and I must raise their awareness. Although sometimes the people are the
problem, government seems to be part of the problem in the world of
agriculture, in Africa.
Every
summer, Lamin Daranka and many places in The Gambia have gardens due to free
rain, but garden lot less in other seasons due to water cost.
Some
youths even go to the provinces but semi-drought of no rain for two to three
weeks may ruin a season and discourage them from farming.
It’s
about time for governments to dig enough boreholes, urge the people to farm,
and then reasonably tax without fear of starving the people.
One
bad season reduces government foreign currency earnings in the millions – is it
not smarter for governments to dig enough boreholes, resist drought, have year
round farming, increase its foreign currency earnings through agriculture,
tourism, and beyond?
By
having free water, we can easily demand over hundred types of herbs and
vegetables be produced in The Gambia for balanced diet and to attract tourists.
We can have food forests to attract better tourists than zoos. We can feed our
animals much better, plant more trees and reduce pollution. Your house address
or month of birth can determine which produce you must produce for your country
to maintain variety and availability.
The
so-called disadvantages of free water policy are shortsighted. The number and
kind of jobs water companies provide are too minimal compared to the jobs free
water will directly and indirectly provide in Africa.
With
regard to water wasting, cameras and meters can be used in some cases. It is
much harder to waste water in Africa because there is hardly water recollection
system, and no sane person will flood a compound.
Watering
the unpaved streets means less dust and the sun will react on it to return as
rain.
Swimming
pools will improve our health and that water can be used to garden. More
swimming pools and plumbing materials can easily earn the governments lot more
than the about ten dollars per compound water bill, at the moment.
Again,
the mild droughts in most of black Africa can be easily resisted if the Lord
continues to bless us as of the present and the past. Such resistance is
appreciation of new blessings by the Lord of the universe, the Lord of the
water that comes from above and under the earth. He allowed us to have wells,
now helping us with boreholes. They consume less space than wells and work
better.
Offering
free water must come with sensitization for the best outcome. Encourage the
people to plant trees to pay for the cost. Plant trees to pay for your children
school fees and AU water tax.
About
$100 AU water tax per decade for every adult, or long term visitor, with less
than ten thousand dollar verifiable tax paid receipts in Africa, one bag of
cashew nuts, or xyz tons of hemp to be paid within three years after the free
water policy is launched.
Otherwise,
you may have lazy folks guaranteed free food, and that may anger the Lord,
risking punishment.
Now,
do the maths: how many millions can your country collect through free water
policy? If you are unemployed by people, plant trees, bamboo for housing,
garden for food, etc. Nature has unlimited employment for us in Africa.
Boreholes
just make the employment easier and more assuring. Every African teenager,
including girls, should be advised at school to plant three cashew trees, sour
sop, sweet sop, baobab, avocado, breadfruit, or something similar to consume
and help pay for school fees, not just depend on parents, asking others, or government subsidies.
Eating
and eating enough are two different things many Africans should learn about. We
produce cashew nuts, under consume them, while others consume enough of it year
round. Sharing one carrot or egg plant with a whole compound cannot be wise or
eating enough.
Now,
cost is partly to blame, but with free water policy, efforts and state of mind
must be raised. Will the AU ministers please sign on on-time or very late?
Introducing
new vegetables, herbs, and nuts is crucial and should not be compromised. The
Koran hints us heaven is where you have variety of food, while hell has limited
food. Like the rest of the world, Africa is seeing a surge of child obesity and
we must smartly confront it.
Rather
than banning or keep introducing them to candies and fry food, every country
must promote at least seven nutritious nuts for consumption, not just money --
Almond, chestnuts, pistachios, should not be for only rich folks and should be
available year round.
Rather
than banning soda, introducing countless soda, or fighting with the kids, we
must introduce vegetable juicing in variety, and it requires much more than
what Africa produces at the moment. Also do not wait on the governments, buy
the seeds, search on the net on how to plant them, visit farms, and pressure
your family members in Africa to farm and garden more. Free water policy should mean much higher
health for Africa, especially our children.
This
movement for free water policy will improve our democracy and reduce
corruption. As the population eats
better, they will fear less, worry less, and think better.
Our
children can be introduced to more vegetables through a vegetarian school
feeding program. Parents can pay with money or produce.
Beside
humans, animals’ lives will improve as grateful guardians of the earth. Imagine contributing to the improvement of
billions or millions of lives? Help spread the message and see yourself as
such.
Vote
for only the political parties that publicly endorse this movement and
approach. Do not for a minute underestimate the possible good through this
initiative – free water translates to almost free food in Africa, which means
less worries and more productive people. It means new inventions are around the
corner and some research gets cheaper in Africa. It means a prosperous Africa is ever more realistic
and probable, not just possible. May the Lord bless Africa and the sincere
friends of Africa!
A
New Technique to drill boreholes:
Saving
time and money is smart beyond boreholes. The bulky material the Western World
sells to Africa and other poor countries to dig boreholes are outdated, unfit
as gifts and deceptive as sales after this wisdom I am about to unveil.
Technology and common sense demand evolution in every aspect of life…. A
submersible electric blender with replaceable concrete nail types of blade can
easily rotate to drill better than the outdated heavy and bulky material.
Alongside
the blender, we will need submersible mud pump and submersible camera to choose
the preferred soil type for the submersible water pump. Submersible camera is
much smarter, cheaper, and more efficient than the ‘electric logging’ many
borehole drilling companies use.
This
combination of materials can easily be made to retail under $500 and be
operated with a car or pick-up truck and a trailer for the PVC pipes.
Almost
every village has a smartphone, so every village will ultimately be able to
have the full drilling set. You will be
able to drill a borehole under one hour with the right type of crew. Meaning one team can drill over 1000
boreholes in a year – of course, we ultimately pray for most compounds to have
a borehole as most compounds had wells.
Let
smart business people and governments team up for this marijuana inspired
invention. The water pipe drills and soften for the blender, the rotation of
concrete nail blades dig, the mud pump sucks, the camera helps dictate the
speed and type of drill options, etc.
You
call engineers with blender experience, submersible pump and any electronics
water proof experience, fan, washing machine, or any rotating machine
experience, drone experience, etc.
Nigeria,
Senegal, South Africa, Ghana, Ethiopia, Kenya, even The Gambia may have enough
engineers to work on such a project.
Asia,
Russia, Arabia, and the Western world, you are also invited to take up this
challenge as caring friends of Africa or pro-earth.
Asia
reportedly dug boreholes with Bamboo sticks, Some Africans are using cheap
metals to manually dig boreholes, and this much smarter approach will certainly
work.
The PVC piping is a bulk of the cost in
boreholes – around $200 per borehole as of now with oil prices going down.
If
we legalize hemp or marijuana, the hemp plastic piping will cost lot less.
Again, we do not have to follow their commercial oriented standards, but use
common sense and respect every needed standard.
The
submersible pumps are reasonably priced around hundred dollars and can go down
as demand rises towards every compound and farm with a borehole.
I
prefer electric over solar pumps at the moment, then use solar or wind to power
it up. I also prefer wind turbine over
solar due to ease of maintenance, plus air is available twenty four hours,
especially with more trees. Using an
inverter through your vehicle’s DC outlet, you can dig a borehole. You can also
use generators. Electric borehole drilling is realistic and much more
efficient.
Let
the governments offer water supply, but have your own borehole for security
reasons. If there is war and they choose to cut water supply, you won’t be
affected.
If
they put fluoride or something you do not trust in the water, you have option.
Trust yourself than the government on food, water, and sex -- please do not
masturbate or buy their sex toys; garden where possible to avoid GMO. Although I do not know of any scientific sign
that frowns at concentrated water collection, I prefer distributed water
drawing, as knowledge improves.
We
will compromise with governments who want to charge water in the summer,
because we should build our houses to collect rain water in the summer.
African
builders must include boreholes, badafos green fence, and/or green houses in
their proposals. African governments can demand about twenty-five per cent of
all compounds be reserved for trees or gardening.
Land
owners to farm or allow citizens to garden on unused land, pay reasonable
commission through produce or money.
People
should not be allowed to abuse others through land ownership. We need land tax
or free it up for potential taxpayers. I
believe in land leasing instead of land owning, and no land inheriting, but
that is a different topic and needs some unlearning for some of you.
Why
Gambia as example? It is the smallest country on mainland Africa, almost no
minerals, considered poor in many ways. If we can transform this country
through free water policy and other simple initiatives to improve African
lives, other countries will have hope and no excuse to follow suit. Of course,
let no country wait for The Gambia.
The
author Jarga Kebba Gigo is an African Activist and Transformer
