THE WATER PROBLEMS OF AFRICA

-created by-Lydia Wren & Alisia Torres

C o n s e q u e n c e s o f d i r t y w a t e rPeople in Africa can Die from the nasty water provided . They can also get sick or get diseases .

• In Africa the water system is unhealthy and can cause death or diseases such as

*Cholera *Dysentery *Parasites *Schitzomonasis *Giardia Africans get sick because

they share their water (river) with animals that bathe in it and even use it as a bathroom.

A child dies from diarrhea every 15 seconds

How To Prevent Africa From Drinking Nasty Water !To help Africa with their water problem, We can … ↓

*get involved

*provide fresh water wells

*put up water tanks

Help ! Africa !

• Water Tanks ↓

ORGANIZATIONUnderneath it shows a woman from Africa collecting water for her family to drink, cook, and wash dishes

Global water focuses on permanent solutions to a religions water needs. Global water provides entire villages to have clean healthy water

About Diseases in Africa CholeraThis disease is sometimes also

known as Ascetic or eplielomic Cholera

Caused by infection with bacterium called vibriu cholera. It’s mainly found in areas that aren’t very cholera.

GuardiaA germ that causes diarrhea

Water in Africa

• *98% of water – related to deaths occur in the developing world

• *3.575 million people die each year from water related diseases

• *884 million people have a lack of access to safe water supplies

• Only 62% of the worlds population has access to improved sanitation

• 2.5 billion people lack access to improved sanitation

• More than half of the poor in the developing world are ill from causes related to hygiene and sanitation

SANITATION

IMPACTS ON CHILDREN

Dirty water will affect the children’s learning ability

For real facts• Four children die every minute

• 90% of all deaths are caused by diarrheal diseases

• Most that die from this diarrheal disease are children under five years of age, Mostly in developing countries

Visit this site to see how people of Africa are living with dirty water ): HELP AFRICA !

Websites Visited

• www.lifewater.org• www.water.org• www.water.cc