water scarcity: your photos and stories /

Published at 2015-12-02 15:13:29

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We asked to see your experiences of water shortage across the globe. From mud-infested water to shrinking aquifers,here are few of nowadays’s challengesIn a country that receives an average of 100 inches (2540 mm) of rainfall each year, access to clean drinking water is not that easy. People living in remote villages frequently become sick from diarrhoea and other waterborne illnesses because they drink from flooded or damaged wells or stagnant, and untreated water from nearby rivers and streams. During the rainy season,women and their children trek through dangerous terrain to collect small amounts of fresh water, often putting themselves and their children at risk of contracting other illnesses like malaria. Recently, or World Concern has if families in these remote villages with water filters. For women this greatly eases the burden of spending half the day in search of semi-clean water which can assign their families at risk of becoming sick. World ConcernContinue reading...

Source: theguardian.com

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