Saturday, July 11, 2009

One Month of Field work Shesh

At the clinic.


The countries largest Mosque in Dhaka.

I felt very welcomed this time.




At a wedding in the village.


My friend Milton.

The top of the waterfall.








This girl is 15 and a friend of mine. She is one of the many kids at Char Para who takes great interest in us western student researchers, learning English from us and teaching us words of Bangali. She got married this week to a 25 year old guy from another village.

We flooded this, then empty, pond to simulate a major rainfall event, and found that E. coli levels in the adjacent shallow monitoring wells responded in a classic contaminant pulse, indicating that fecal bacteria were penetrating >8 m laterally into the aquifer. It is common practice to drill shall drinking water wells next to ponds such as these.



The results!



Nice house in Dhaka.


Babu, our amazing driver, and Palash ordering American fast food for the first time. The studied the menu for a while and we ended up going with the Awesome burger.




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