P2 African Water Crisis PowerPoint

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African Water Crisis- What is Currently Being Done and How People can Help Written by Matthew Kuang

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Africa is getting dryer very fast. Water keeps getting polluted and wasted.

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The government of Africa is currently giving around 5% of budget to water and water sanitation.

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They are also setting up the African Water Facility, whose goal is $600 million.

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Gourisankar Ghoush, the executive director of the Water Supply and Sanitation Collaborative Council, says that the government takes it like each country needs the money to help the water issue, but it’s more of an individual issue.

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Anne Kajumulo Tibaijuka says that the government thinks all those people who live in slums with poor living conditions and food conditions can’t build their lives back together, so basically they don’t recognize them.

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Nairobi, Kenya has about 60% of its population living in these horrible conditions.

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The amount of space that the quarters and such are is only 5% of the city’s territory.

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People can help the water crisis by not throwing trash in the water.

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If people don’t throw their trash in the water, it wouldn’t be so polluted. Then we would have a lot more water than we have today, but since people continue to pollute oceans, rivers, lakes, and other water sources, they don’t have much clean water.

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There are some places in the ocean that are filled with trash like plastic bottles, wrappers, toys, and other old stuff, so not all of the ocean water can be used.

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Another way people can help is by not using too much water to take showers/baths, wash clothes, drink, and for entertainment.

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If people didn’t take long showers or baths (around 30 minutes), or wash there clothes with tons of water, or drink water when they don’t need to, or not go to water parks too much, we would also have a lot much more water.

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If people take 10-15 minute showers or baths, they save a lot more water.

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People can also save water by using it wisely. If people use it for things that aren’t needed like buckets of water balloons, dumping people with buckets of water for no reason or just spilling water accidentally.

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People need to be more careful with water.

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People should try not to waste water this way because if we are careful with are water and use it wisely, we could have a lot more water.

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An organization that is helping the Water Crisis is called Global Water.

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It is an international, non-profit humanitarian organization that was founded in 1982.

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They focus on creating safe water supplies and keeping it sanitized.

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Successful Global Water projects utilize water and sanitation as a tool to create sustainable socioeconomic development in these poor rural communities.

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Africa could go from this to… This!

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