That's Mr. Barney, Environmental Protection Specialist from USAID. Barney was here to conduct field inspection so he can write his environmental impact inspection report on USAID projects in Aceh. His main objective? To study the rehabilitation and building of new drainage, sewage, and irrigation systems, and cleaning of wells. In other words, he wanted to look at toilets.
We saw 7 toilets, 2 really bad ones, a few deemed so-so, and 2 really good ones. Barney even personally tested a few.
USAID is also helping the Indonesian government to rebuild the main highway between Banda Aceh and Meulaboh. The road is about 245 km (155 mi) long and will cost $245 million. So about $1 million for every kilometer. It's going to be quite an undertaking, a lot of debris have to be removed (see picture below) and much of the old road was washed away by the tsunami. The engineers will have to carve into the mountains because the temporary road now is not even 3 feet above sea level. A big storm could easily wash out the current road.
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