Water Filter

There's a tiny coffee nook around the corner called Wakoka, run by Wayan (the Wa) with occasional help from his brothers Komang (ko) and Kadek (ka). He lives two houses down on the corner of our gang and the two lane street. Wakoka is carved out of the entrance to his home which is on the two lane street. We by Nazava water filters for local people close to us so that they can stop buying drinking water. They have a charcoal filter inside a clay filter in the top part and a spigot in the bottom one. Jeroen brought one over for our gardener who kept not taking it. He was here a couple of days ago hustling some plants on us that I paid too much for probably. We usually buy anything he brings. He's one of the only people I actually barter with because he's such a hustler and can't stop being a hustler. I call him Made Gangu. Only behind his back. Gangu meants to pester or bother. So I was trying to explain how the filter works and how to take care of it and he said he didn't need those parts. He just wanted the containers. I told him we haven't bought water in seven years but nope. He could only think of them as free buckets. He just didn't get it. So I said never mind and took it over to Wayan at Wakoko who got it after a minute. Told him to use the first batch to water the plants.  He liked the idea of getting free drinking water from the faucet. He filled it with a hose that's right by the entrance. I told him it was originally intended for our gardener but that he was just too kampung, too country. It's really hard to get local people and foreigners to trust anything but bottled water. Easier with city folks. But then they've got to clean the filter when it gets slimy, usually about once a week - can do that with your hands in a minute. First two we gave away they forgot to clean and the filters got too much caked on them that got too hard to clean so gave them new filters and that was years ago. Jeroen who distributes them has placed thousands of them in villages, giving a demonstration of how to take care of them to large groups. He gets donations, funding for that. I wonder what percentage of them are used as buckets.