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“Usually, we work in the city, but sometimes we have projects in the campo (rural areas) as well. When Alberto Fujimori was president of Peru, he initiated a large project to improve the water situation in rural villages. I participated in that project by assembling and training five drilling teams, and in total all five teams drilled 1500 wells in three years’ time. A properly drilled borehole lasts decades, gives water of high quality, and is a lot cheaper than machine-drilled wells.”
“I started working in the drilling business in 1992, when I worked with the Peruvian organization ADRA-OFASA. We drilled wells with large machines there. In 1997, while doing a project for the Bolivian organization OPS, I met a Dutch engineer called Pieter, who new Wolfgang Buchner who was working with the <a href="http://www.akvo.org/wiki/index.php/[[Jetting_-_EMAS_method">|EMAS drilling system</a>]]. Pieter arranged an invitation for me for a one-month course at EMAS, in well drilling, water tanks, and solar home heating. Shortly after that course, I started my own drilling enterprise, together with my wife, Hermelinda.”
[[Image:samuel11.jpg|thumb|center|300px|Manually drilling a borehole with the EMAS method]]
