Skip to main content

Home/ jones1/ Group items tagged ParkALongWalkToWater

Rss Feed Group items tagged

Filter: All | Bookmarks | Topics Simple Middle
anonymous

Water In Crisis - Spotlight Africa: Rural and Urban Issues - 0 views

thewaterproject.org/r-in-crisis-rural-urban-africa

ParkALongWalkToWater

shared by anonymous on 05 Sep 14 - No Cached
    • anonymous
      anonymous on 05 Sep 14
       
      In A Long Walk to Water, Nya, a Neur tribe member in Sudan, has to walk several miles to a pond to bring water home for her family twice each day. Each trip there and back takes half a day. Because of this she cannot go to school or get an education.
  • Surface water sources are often highly polluted
  • There are limited sources of water available to provide clean drinking water
  • ...9 more annotations...
  • One major challenge is the ability for both rural and urban Africans to access a clean water supply.
  • Groundwater is the best resource to tap to provide clean water
  • However, the high costs associated with drilling for water
    • anonymous
      anonymous on 05 Sep 14
       
      At the end of A Long Walk to Water, a relief group headed by Salva, a man in the Dinka tribe of Sudan, drills a groundwater well for Nya's village. Nya will never have to walk to the pond again!
  • and the technical challenges in finding sources that are large enough to serve the population in need, present challenges that limit tapping the resource
    • anonymous
      anonymous on 05 Sep 14
       
      Each day, Nya collects water for her family. The water from the pond she collects from is polluted. Not knowing this, Nya gives the water to her family, and her sister Akeer drinks it. Akeer gets sick, but is eventually cured.
  • Young children die from
  • dehydration and malnutrition, results of suffering from diarrheal illnesses
  • Women and young girls, who are the major role-players in accessing and carrying water, are prevented from doing income-generating work or attending school, as the majority of their day is often spent walking miles for their daily water needs
1 - 1 of 1
Showing 20▼ items per page