Drinking Water Shortage in Sub-Saharan Africa

water diseases alone account for more than three million deaths each year. We help Africa by

water diseases alone account for more than three million deaths each year. We help Africa by

During the 90’s, Africa is one of the worst affected from water shortages. The rainfall in Africa comes in bursts; this means the water may not be collected because of how dry the land is. Therefore, Africa has had droughts that have affected the rainfall recently. As an outcome, Africa’s water supply is near scarcity, considering the facts stated.

The water crisis in Africa has many ill effects including diminished health, poor education and low productivity. Currently 319 million people in Sub-Saharan Africa do not have access reliable clean drinking water. When you don't have access to clean water your are much more likely to be exposed to diarrheal illnesses, which cause dehydration, starvation and eventually death. Currently 62% of Sub-Saharan Africa’s population lives in rural areas. However, there are many negative consequences to living in a rural area. One main reason widespread access to clean water has not been achieved yet is because water is a very challenging material to transport and transporting water in rural areas with minimal infrastructure does not make transportation

The purpose of this research paper is to discuss the water crisis in the region of Africa and how water can cause many other problems such as inadequate sanitation, poverty and diseases for the population. People living in third world countries are suffering from the water crisis that has become a major problem for the United Nations, World Health Organization, United Nations Children’s Fund, Millennium Development Goals and many of the other organizations. For some of these organizations have been successful in providing a bit more water through the years it’s still a working process. Water is essential for life, it’s not just for the body’s physical need; yet millions of people do not have access to clean water. The lack of accessible of fresh water contributes too many diseases such as HIV, AIDS, waterborne diseases, causing the death of millions of women and children annually in the region. This is making it harder for the communities to develop a safer home for their families and to improve the conditions of the country. This research paper will examine the problems, solutions and causes. How it all comes together, to contribute to this water crisis and to weather there is a solutions set by the United Nations, studies that have been conducted and other organizations, which can maybe work for the years to come. In addition, the same water problems are going to be discussed with regard to Africa for statics, examples and quotes done by the organizations in the past and

According to Mr. Alexandra Barton (Thewaterproject, 2015), there are partial sources available to access clean drinking water to the total inhabitants in Sierra Leone. The foundation for pipe water from fresh, hygienic sources to dry regions is too expensive. Groundwater is the finest resource to tap to afford clean water for the people of Sierra Leone, particularly in the countryside area. However, the problems of shortage of clean water is widespread. Young kids perish from malnutrition and dehydration, which result to diarrheal sicknesses that could be prohibited by clean water. Female both adult and youth, who are the key role-players in fetching and carrying water, are prohibited from doing income-generating work or attending school,

People contract waterborne diseases due to improper measures of drinking water – the disease associated with this typhoid. Most of these reported diseases can be controlled by a clean environment and proper preventive measures.

Some people around the world don't have the same stuff and opportunities as you do in your life.The topic of this essay is going to be about water quality and availability in Africa. People all around Africa don't have safe drinking fresh, clean water or any water at all. This problem started when rain started to decrease and water pipes started to get damaged, this problem affects people all over Africa because people need water in order to survive and stay healthy.The U.S government should round up all of the rich people so they can donate money, time, and especially water. 3 reasons that this is a big problem is that people die of thirst, drink very contaminated water, and they walk miles or even days just to get a little bit of water. In the next 3 paragraphs I will talk about why this is a problem that needs to be solved and how this truly affects the people in Africa.

“Water is essential to life; however, people do not have access to clean and safe drinking water and several die of waterborne bacterial infections” (Cabral). Africa is home to many of these people. This region is in desperate need of a transition, not only in access to fresh water, but also for better sanitation. Toilets are often found over pits, next septic trucks are hired to pump out the sewage, and finally carried away. The dumping sites for the sewage are commonly found in rivers, streams, or oceans. Thus contaminating Africa’s fresh drinking water causing many people to become sick. An even bigger problem is when the toilets, which are called pit latrines, fill up people have no choice but to go to the bathroom outside in the open and have by the time this ends up running down into the open drinking water. No matter where people in Africa defecate it almost always ends up in their drinking water. This problem is constantly getting worse

Water pollution is a serious global issue that is massively affecting Africa. The lack for proper sanitation due to poverty and the inadequacy of knowledge that the african people uphold sustain an environment full of injurious pollution. As the people continue to bathe and drink in such water, lives are put at risk. As the “Ghana Water Project” we assembled an organization to provide education globally about the effects of water pollution and assist in funding the Safe Water Network

The consumption of water of poor quality can be fatal not only to human lives but also the lives of the animals or livestock that consume it. Bacteria and viruses within water are the causes of water borne diseases such as cholera, typhoid and gastroenteritis. One of the main causes of death for children in South Africa under the age of five is, in fact, gastroenteritis. These diseases pose a greater threat to the informal settlers situated along river banks (or any other natural water source) because they use the water directly from the river without sufficiently purifying it or without purifying it at all. Also, their ability to seek good medical care after exposure is limited. This means that they are more likely to die from a water-borne disease that is otherwise preventable. (Umngeni Valley Nature Reserve, 2017)

Water scarcity occurs when there is the lack of sufficient available water resources to meet the needs of water within a region. The continent of Africa is a main region that deals with this scarcity; as the most impoverished continent in the world (“World Bank – Poverty Data 2016”), almost all countries in Africa lack major resources such as water, causing several organizations and groups to donate their time and contributions. Water scarcity is categorized by economic and physical levels. Economic growth can result in physical water scarcity as water is channeled into economic production. Physical water scarcity occurs when the demand of water surpasses a region’s ability to provide the populations with needed water. On the other hand, economic water scarcity occurs when government investments in water resources are so inconsiderably low that they are not able to meet clean water demands for the population, which results in people drinking and using contaminated water.

Twelve percent of our earth’s population uses eighty-five percent of its water. 1.2 billion people in our earth our do not have easy access to clean drinking water. Due to the shortage of pure water it has caused 250 million deceases, leading to 5-10 million deaths annually just because of pure water. The problem of purified water has put a lot of stress on developing countries. Developing countries can often afford a sanitation plant and the facilities to run a sanitation plant and have the water run to families in urban areas but the problem is that it is often too expensive, or they don’t have everything to reach rural areas leaving a lot of poor families without pure water. In Africa the women are given the responsibility to collect water for

For centuries, people have battled the resources surrounding them while on the hunt for drinkable water with little success. However, with advances in technology, many high- and middle-income nations are now able to have access to clean, drinkable, toxin-free water at all times. For the lower-income nations, the same cannot be said. One of the most water hungry continents in need of water today is Africa. Though it is made of several nations, each containing several different tribes and cultures, they all share the same problem: lack of drinkable water. Several of the nations are too poor to afford clean aquatic resources,or simply lack the education needed to obtain the water. The critical need for water in Africa is a problem that many

Limited access to water has contributed to poor child health - a third of children die under the age of of five from diarrhoea. Children grow weak from not having enough water in their bodies. They have to help carry water for their moms and they are weak to help with it. Children may not even eat or drink anything for many days. They have to lose their education just because