The day started of with getting a top up in a kiosk, and this became a bit of a task. The man behind the counter had troubles with the process, so sent is soon on a bike to somewhere else.. i stood there kind of puzzled not sure what to say, but after about 15 minutes i received a message that said the top up was successful. Wonderful, and the kiosk man was extremely happy...
The village today was also at the tailend of a different distributary. There was more water here and they had borewells as well as some canal water, so managed, but still voiced many concerns. Todays mission was to get through the entire questionnaire and get feedback on it. We managed to get two done, and it was successful. I kept talking to the CADA officer today. He knew English so managed to ask him some of my own questions. He was very honest man, who had actually never been in this particular village. He said that " I go where societies are active, there I guide them" so was this not an active society then? The answer was " Where there is activity and participation from the farmers, results are possible to achieve. This town is expecting the government to come in and fix everything. It is a WUA here, but it is participation on paper, something you find very often in the tailend..." Then we chatted about Norway, his family, my family - and my mum rang in the middle of it. I had to talk to her later... We left with a better understanding of how the questionnaire could become better. We literally had to change everything...
The trip back to Bangalore was long. Watched a movie in the car (fancy screen in the roof in the front) Beautiful love story from West Bengal. I was deep into it when we stopped for a nice meal... Another three hours to go.. We have traveled lots the last days, and more of this is to come.. Filled to the rim with impressions I have managed to get some of my initial thoughts on paper -and my master is slowly emerging.. Nice... Bed and silence finally, but now i could not sleep. Kept pacing until 2 0'clock, but had good night sleep in the end...
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