Saturday, September 30, 2006

Views of Juruena September 2006 [2]

Here is a second helping of views from around the parish.
A wooden cattle grid that divides two farms on the road to one of the communities.
The town "water reservoir". At the moment the water is undrinkable and I hear the women giving out it is not good for washing clothes either. It has little to do with the arrival of the recent rains, but rather because of political ineptitude and the fact the main filter has not been replaced in 12 years. In the mean time we have to buy water for fear of disease. That's OK for me as I drink about 6/8 litres of water a day. And 22 litres of water costs BR$7.00 and for the locals BR$20.00 is a days wage. No wonder Yellow Fever & Dengue Fever are rampant here.

The new rains burst the dam at the reservoir. The dam was a big tree trunk!


A young ice cream seller. Since it is made locally and made from the town water supply, I wonder how safe it is?


A wooden "sugar cane press" on a local farm. Brazilians have a full set of sweet teeth rather than one sweet tooth!