Sheila: We’re at the so called “Singing Wells” where the people bring their cattle to be watered whether or not we’re actually going to go and see it well depend if people are inside the well or not.
Male: Many meters deep there, they bring water from there until here.
Sheila: All the way from there until here.
Male: Yes, and now they have water here, so they filled there, when they filled with water its in the food. Tomorrow in the morning they can be start to bring from those lakes, like twenty percent in one line.
Sheila: So this is called the “Singing Wells of Borena”.
Male: As you can see every place is dry. They dig the water like twenty meters.
Sheila: Twenty meters is like twenty feet.
Male: Yes.
Sheila: When one herd is finished drinking, they let the next herd come on down for the water, a very big drought situation in this area.
As far as you can see this herds of cattle, ribs sticking of. Now it’s the goats turn, treating line waiting for their turn patiently. I want water.
This is a crater like salt. Black salt, usually they have man standing in the middle of it, and then filtrates them. These trails, these are for animal consumption not people consumption.
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