"What I'd like to do is just to start off small. Choose a village and install something like the Yellow Quill water drinking system and show them the difference that they could have ... if it really does improve people's health, which improves their income and helps them develop quicker, then I think I've proved myself."

"Going in, we knew that their infant mortality rate is very high and we knew that they, from speaking with people, had very high levels of disease, especially diarrhea and dysentery. And so that was some of my motivation. I went and sampled the water and found that 94 per cent of the water that we sampled had E. coli in it, which is an indicator that there's fecal contamination. That's when I met [Hans Peterson] and we talked about the possibilities of using Yellow Quill as a role model for us."

"Sometimes, a new guy comes in and he wants to change around things and that may be good. Unless there's that trust built up, how do you know this guy is bringing something good? So far, I've had a lot of people who've told me `Well, the water's fine. We don't have a problem with it.' Part of that is they just don't know. They're not educated to know the difference between what could be if they had clean water and what they've got."

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