We returned from a scouting trip around Panama, where we visited a bunch of project sites and planned the upcoming March trip.  We decided to focus on the town of Portobelo, where the community has had major problems with clean drinking water.  The clinic staff told us that the vast majority of cases they see result from pathogens in the drinking water.  They have a sedimentation tank that is badly in need of repair/redesign.  We will be making the tank usable, adding a chlorination module, and working with the high school to keep the system in working order once we leave.  The educational component is critical to the project's success: failure to maintain the sedimentation tank is the reason we will be working in Portobelo.