Togo Persuasive Essay

Travelling to the heart of Togo, one will find many villages lacking clean water. One will encounter children who spend half of their day walking for miles to and from a river, only to come back with buckets of unfiltered water, contaminated with disease. One will watch the people of these villages become infested with said disease, as it is the only water they drink. One will also discover villages struggling with thirst for two-fourths of the year while the wet season departs and the dry season begins. According to Andrew Mitchell, International Development Secretary for the British Government, the current drought in Africa is the worst in over fifty years and the international must do more to solve this humanitarian crisis. I believe that this epidemic of drought, disease and thirst is an undue burden on the people of Togo who are in dire need of a wet solution. A solution that could utilize existing technology for the betterment of an entire nation of nearly eight million people. This solution, however, is not …show more content…
A country that is underwater is one that experiences zero drought, zero death from thirst, and unlimited amounts of water for resources. However, flooding an entire nation is a tough task. One that can only be accomplished by a tsunami. This is why I have written to you, President Trump, asking you to sincerely send a few nuclear bombs to West Africa so that they can be set off under the surface of the ocean near the coastal city of Lomé. This series of detonations would create a minor tsunami that would be strong enough to pummel Lomé yet gracefully extend into nearly two-thirds of the small, narrow country. There is a mountain range in the northern region of Togo that would probably block the water from reaching everybody in Togo, but I am confident that the people who experience this revitalization of water will share the love and help the other Togolese in