pozos

Updated: May 20, 2025

The poor people have no way whatever of storing rain-water, and either beg a few quarts each day from the rich people to whom they are feudally attached, or else they fall back upon the ground wells, or pozos, which, even they know, breed fevers and dysentery. By no means every house has its well. Sometimes there are only two or three to a block.

Mary Helen Fee - A Woman's Impression of the Philippines