Ethiopian Drinking Water

In all environmental scientists careers, one must think clearly about which country scientists choose to help. In Ethiopia, villages lack the adequate amount of drinking water to sustain every villagers need. Out of the 82,825,000 people that live in Ethiopia, 62% of people live without the supply of clean drinking water, and 271,000 children die each year from various causes, including unclean water (Onuoha). Most land in Ethiopia is farmland, which is the reason why the majority of Ethiopians live in rural areas. 84% of Ethiopians live in rural or subsistence farming areas and rely on rainfall for crops (Hendrix). A wet and dry season are found in Ethiopia, with June through August being the wet season. The rest of the months have a relatively low rainfall. (“Drinking Water Sanitation’’). With Ethiopia receiving sporadic rainfall between seasons, rain water cannot be saved for future dry months, and crops do not receive the nutrition from water all year long. This leads to villagers, especially children, dying because of lack of nutrition from water and food in their body.
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With installing advanced technologies, water can be collected in different ways throughout the regions of Ethiopia. With only 10% of WaterAid America funds coming from foreign affairs, it is relatively easy to donate a small amount of money to go to funding for rain harvesting jars. Without clean drinking water in Ethiopia, villagers are left having to use all of their time to look for water, whether it be for crops or just for drinking. Many women and children have used up most of their life trying to find drinking water, affecting the home life and proper education of the local people. Bringing in WaterAid technologies to desperate areas without water, people of Ethiopia will be able to use the life they have in a variety of