Water pollution does not just affect one specific group of people, it affects many different demographics. My first source is “Coastal Pollution and Women 's Health in Ada-Foah, Ghana”, published in 2003 by Elaine Tweneboah. In this article, the author goes over the many problems women in Ada-Foah face concerning water pollution. My second source is “Perceptions of farmers on health risks and risk reduction measures in wastewater-irrigated urban vegetable farming in Ghana”, published in 2008 by Bernard Keraita , Pay Drechsel and Flemming Konradsen. In this article, the authors highlight the issues with farmers using wastewater to irrigate their crops in Accra and Kumasi, Ghana. The main points of this analysis for this essay are which article
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The way the author goes about doing so makes it look like she made all of her information up, and it is hard to take any of it seriously. For example, “In 2000, only 40 percent of the rural population had access to safe water in Ghana” (para. 5), after which she does not refer to where she got the information. The article would have had a much more effective logos argument if the author would have simply added a few references here and there. The one thing Tweneboah’s article does better is, that it more effectively crafted a pathos argument, because it takes a focus on the people affected by the problem, not just the problem like the second article. It makes the reader you feel bad for the women there, as it goes over hardship after hardship that they face every day. For example, “...women have to walk 3-5 hours a day to collect wood fuel for cooking and heating” (para. 10). Not only that but it explains how completely oblivious to the pollution that these women …show more content…
The only emotion you really feel is disgust in the article, when they talk about how they use wastewater to water their vegetables. “The common sources of irrigation water are drains, streams, ponds and shallow wells, which are in most cases contaminated with diluted or raw untreated wastewater generated from the cities” (para. 3), and then it goes on later to see they eat these vegetables raw without trying anything to get rid of the pollutants on
The way the author goes about doing so makes it look like she made all of her information up, and it is hard to take any of it seriously. For example, “In 2000, only 40 percent of the rural population had access to safe water in Ghana” (para. 5), after which she does not refer to where she got the information. The article would have had a much more effective logos argument if the author would have simply added a few references here and there. The one thing Tweneboah’s article does better is, that it more effectively crafted a pathos argument, because it takes a focus on the people affected by the problem, not just the problem like the second article. It makes the reader you feel bad for the women there, as it goes over hardship after hardship that they face every day. For example, “...women have to walk 3-5 hours a day to collect wood fuel for cooking and heating” (para. 10). Not only that but it explains how completely oblivious to the pollution that these women …show more content…
The only emotion you really feel is disgust in the article, when they talk about how they use wastewater to water their vegetables. “The common sources of irrigation water are drains, streams, ponds and shallow wells, which are in most cases contaminated with diluted or raw untreated wastewater generated from the cities” (para. 3), and then it goes on later to see they eat these vegetables raw without trying anything to get rid of the pollutants on