Clean Water In Developing Countries

Right now, developing countries barely have water access. With the access to clean water; education, health, hunger, and poverty rates within every community will improve tremendously. In developing countries, children miss days and days at a time away from school because they spend most of their day searching for water or they have become ill from water-borne disease. With access to clean water, children can spend more time in the classroom than outside searching for water miles away from their communities. People like Saran Kaba Jones (Kermeliotis, 2013), have worked to improve clean water systems within poor rural areas in developing countries like Liberia; whose original water systems were destroyed by a civil war. Communities can improve their water system with …show more content…
All students would benefit from the educational system due to the fact that they are in school and not out searching for water. The health of a community can be restored, hunger will decrease, and poverty rates will deplete. There are many developing countries around the world that suffer endlessly because of the consumption of unclean water and the inability to maintain an adequate level of proper hygiene. Thus making the communities unsanitary and the living areas substandard. Statistics have shown that clean water can reduce water-related deaths by 21%, and sanitation can reduce water-related deaths by 37%. Statistics have also shown that by reducing the distance of a water source can increase children’s school attendance by 12%. Families can increase their time yielding their farms from 20% to 30%. These statistics show that water has an effect on everything in everyday life, and by giving a few dollars a day to non-profit organizations like The Water Project (2015), we can make a difference in many communities in developing countries across the