While browing National Geographic website on March 8, 2011, I came across an article that made me think about the issue of poverty that we have recently been talking about. The article discusse how in Soutern Ethopia women have to travel down steep paths miles away from their homes to fetch water and the water they fetch is not even clean. They spend at least eight hours a day if not more making trips back and forth to obtain water.
My reaction to this article was at first one of disbelief. It just seems a little crazy that you ahve to travel so far away to get water. Then the more I thought abou tit the more I realized how common it is especially in poverty stricken areas. How can we make this less drastic?
When I think about sustainability, an issue like this really seems like something we shouold focus on. There are 3.3 million that use of drink dirty water. I wonder how many of those individuals are in the U.S. and how many are in other parts of the word. So the question is why is that we rank one higher than the other? Shouldn't we as inividuals try to make a global change, not just in our state or in our country?
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