The plight of women and children in Africa regarding safe and sanitary water must be resolved. To ignore such a struggle is to be permissive to those who engage in the violent and threatening behavior that challenge a simple task of getting water. The fact that water issues in Africa do not hit close to home does not lessen the need for global intervention. Water is a luxury in the U.S. that is often taken for granted with many states having an over abundance of it, Sitka, Alaska being one of them. In THE NEW OIL, by Jeneen Interlandi and Ryan Tracy, it states, “The city’s tiny population of fewer than 10,000 people makes this an embarrassment of riches” (Interlandi and Tracy). The article also stated in 2010:
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In Morocco, for instance, the Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Project of the World Bank was aimed at reducing the burden of girls, traditionally involved in fetching water, in order to improve their school attendance” (Deen). It is promising to read that while many in America distance themselves from these issues, there are strong, educated people who are stepping forward to find ways to better the lives of women and children they may never meet, for no other reason than it is the right thing to …show more content…
Twenty-nine of the thirty-nine African countries surveyed (almost 75%) have recognized the human right to water in their constitutions or legislations and 25 out of 39 (nearly two-thirds) have recognized the right to sanitation” (WHO). A large impediment to proper sanitation is open defecation. Without educating people on the reasons against it, the chances of changing this behavior is not promising. “Ethiopia has made considerable progress in ending open defecation. From 1990 to 2012, open defecation in Ethiopia fell by 55 percentage points, from 92% to 37% “(WHO). Lack of funding looks to be the biggest obstacle to overcome. “In 11 African countries that provided expenditure data, rural populations represent 70% of the unserved, however, benefit from only 19% of expenditures for sanitation and drinking water” (WHO). It is difficult to understand why those who need it most, aren’t the first priority. Monetary reasons could be at issue in how the funding is
As the crisis worsens, …show more content…
In Morocco, for instance, the Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Project of the World Bank was aimed at reducing the burden of girls, traditionally involved in fetching water, in order to improve their school attendance” (Deen). It is promising to read that while many in America distance themselves from these issues, there are strong, educated people who are stepping forward to find ways to better the lives of women and children they may never meet, for no other reason than it is the right thing to …show more content…
Twenty-nine of the thirty-nine African countries surveyed (almost 75%) have recognized the human right to water in their constitutions or legislations and 25 out of 39 (nearly two-thirds) have recognized the right to sanitation” (WHO). A large impediment to proper sanitation is open defecation. Without educating people on the reasons against it, the chances of changing this behavior is not promising. “Ethiopia has made considerable progress in ending open defecation. From 1990 to 2012, open defecation in Ethiopia fell by 55 percentage points, from 92% to 37% “(WHO). Lack of funding looks to be the biggest obstacle to overcome. “In 11 African countries that provided expenditure data, rural populations represent 70% of the unserved, however, benefit from only 19% of expenditures for sanitation and drinking water” (WHO). It is difficult to understand why those who need it most, aren’t the first priority. Monetary reasons could be at issue in how the funding is