DECEMBER 2025 / UGANDA / DRILLING FOR DEEP WATER WELL
On December 23, we drilled for the deep water well. Unfortunately, it wasn’t successful. All the locations identified by the geology team turned out negative.
At the first site, they drilled down to 100 meters, but no water was found. At another site, a 35-meter borehole looked promising at first, but the water output was very low. They waited overnight, and by morning they were expecting about 5,000 liters of water, but it turned out to be only about 5 liters.
They continued drilling to 105 meters, but still found nothing. In January, the contractor plans to bring in a senior geological engineer from Kenya, since they were just as disappointed as we were.
For now, he advised us to stick with rainwater collection or dig valley dams and install water pipes, a pump, and a tank so we can push water to the center of town.
