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The Challenge of Providing Clean Water in Rural Africa
March 22nd, 2013Every two years the World Health Organization takes a look at access to improved drinking water around the world. The good news is that an additional 2 billion people gained access to improved water between 1990 and 2010, including 273 million in Sub Saharan Africa. The bad news is that some 780 million people have [...]
World Water Day: Imagine if You Woke Up Tomorrow and No Water Flowed from Your Taps
March 22nd, 2012Imagine if you woke up tomorrow and no water flowed from your taps. How far would you have to walk to get to the nearest fresh water source? How long would it take you? And what things could you have done during that time if you didn’t have to devote it to your very survival? [...]