Where there is necessity, there is ingenuity
May 16, 2009
This morning we spent time discussing how the villagers make do with what they have. “Where there is necessity, there is ingenuity,” Marcus Aguilar remarked. Most have 1,000 liter water holding tanks that are either filled by rainwater harvesting or wells. They use hydropower to separate the rice. Bamboo cut long-ways are used on eaves for gutters. Since most water-buffalo died this past winter, the villagers are plowing the rice fields. It seems there is always a way to use natural recourses for everyday life. Later in the day we travelled back to Sapa.
Robert Quinney, a sophomore in civil engineering
