Waiting for the Fountain of Life

An older man pours water from a white bucket as a seated woman collects it outside a rustic house. Other people and a dog are visible in the background, and trees surround the scene.

Water. That clear, life-giving, refreshing friend is only a fleeting guest for many homes in Nicaragua, especially in the rural homes that depend on hand-dug wells and natural streams as their only source of this precious resource. Reynaldo Montoya Vílchez, a man with lively eyes and robust stature, has persevered through many trials over his […]