How Do You See if Water Is In a Water Main?

I'll tell you in a minute.

The water mains--I use this term loosely--are frequently visible on top of the ground or in gullies beside the road.  It is all plastic pipe from 3/4" to 4" in diameter.

There are several ways to see if water is in the line.  You can pick it up and see if it is heavy.  You can feel it to see if it is cool to the touch.  You can walk down the road and turn on a faucet.

But Nooooooo!!!

Here. you pick up an ice pick and poke a hole in the line and see if water squirts out!

That's right!  This is the way they do it.  I can't believe it.

I have been wondering why these water mains were spraying a fine mist out onto the road every couple of hundred feet.  This is why.

This boggles my mind.

Just another little Panamanian way of doing things.

This is Holy Week.  Panama is a VERY Catholic country.  Guilt works well here.

And, Holy Week may be the biggest event of the year, not in the loud, partying Fat Tuesday way, but in a mellow, pious way.

There are copious amounts of processions.  Every day, someone is walking up and down the streets, throwing ashes or some other crap, carrying religious banners, and cooling people down, I mean, anointing the masses with Holy Water.

In many ways, it is good to see a country so united behind anything.  Even though I have poked a few jokes at it, I do respect it,