Have you ever thought about the other kids in the world that do not have clean water like us. I think that we are spoiled with all of the clean water that we have. Did you know that more than 750 million people in the world do not have clean water to drink. Children in foreign countries have dirty water. The distance to walk for clean water is too far for women and children. Children are dying from drinking dirty water. Without CLEAN water life is difficult. All kids in the world deserve to have clean water.
The distance to walk for clean water is too far for women and children. For example In “A Long Walk To Water it tells a true story of a boy named Salva and a girl named Nya if you like this essay I recommend you to read that book. If you were living There would you want to go to get water twice a day every day I wouldn’t. You could get thirsty and drink all the water. While I was doing my research I found a story that went like this For one day, I am doing what millions of poor women in world are doing right now all around the world: I am carrying water. Their families need water. And the only way they can just get it is to hoist it onto their backs or heads in cans and buckets. It is a never ending job that in many countries takes up most of the day than anything else the women do.
I’ve joined a group of women from this tiny desert village in southern Ethiopia, one of the poorest countries in the world. The capital, Addis Ababa a rapidly expanding city where steel and glass skyscrapers rise above acres of tin roofed shanties, it is 400 miles and 15 hours away by land cruiser over disintegrating asphalt and hard packed dirt roads to get to the capital.
One girl in the group, 14 years old wearing a patched purple dress, has fallen, Several of us try to get her back on her feet. She is pinned down by her heavy load of water on her back. Our own loads make it hard for us to lift her up. The path is on a steep slope and our feet slip on loose gravel.
This is life for millions of women in poor countries. They routinely walk four or five miles a day to get water. they go out with empty containers. But heading home, they are often hauling more than 40 pounds of water. Another story is When Jaclyn was in first grade her school did a water walk with their family groups. We had to walk to a stream down the hill with a milk jug. than bring the milk jug back up the hill which was about a mile. In many developing countries, women and girls walk on average over 3.5 miles each day to fetch water. Women often spend more than 15 hours per week gathering water. Women walk an average distance of four miles daily to get clean water.
Without water life is difficult. Because of the dirty water it affects education. Many children are frequently absent from school because they are collecting water or are sick with water-related diseases. It is also difficult to recruit good teachers to work in schools where there is no clean water. It is very important for kids big and small to have clean water. We get spoiled by having filtered CLEAN and COLD water. Lack of clean water and toilets costs sub-Saharan Africa 5% of its Gross Domestic Product every year. The hours spent collecting water or suffering from water-related diseases reduce the time people can spend earning money or growing food.
Children are dying because of the dirty water. Unsafe water and poor sanitation cause diarrheal diseases, which kill over 500,000 people every year and lead to malnutrition; parasitic infections such as bilharzia and hookworm; and water-washed diseases including the eye infection trachoma and skin infections such as scabies.(those are all different diseases)
I hope that you understand that every kid in the world deserves to have clean water. I wrote this essay because kids and women walk too far for clean water, Children are dying from dirty water, and life without water is very difficult.
| Name | Kaylie DeYong | James O. | Nolan Mannes | Mrs.
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Zeke Hutt | Jaclyn Meyer |
| Do you think it is important that kids in foreign countries deserve clean water? | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Why | Because they should be treated just like us americans | Then they Won’t get sick | They could get sick or die. With clean water they can stay healthier. | Health reasons and it makes their lives last longer with fresh clean water. | They could Die of health issues | if they don’t it will not be good for them and they could die. | It is not fair that they were born into poverty and we weren’t. |