The organization equipped and trained a team of Kenyan drillers, and Living Water Kenya began operations the next year under the direction of a national board.

In 1989 he invented a portable rig called the LS 100 that could be transported in the back of a pickup truck or in a small boat.

[2] Westmoreland increased the LS 100 rig's drilling capacity in order to sink holes 200 and 300 feet through soft formations.

[2] The countries Living Water operates in include Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Peru, Haiti, Dominican Republic, Mexico, Ghana, Burkina Faso, Rwanda, Uganda, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Kenya, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.

It received funding from the US government's Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC) agency which helped it to acquire extra drilling equipment for its Kenyan operations.