Impacts of Untreated Water to Water Poor Communities

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This essay will discuss the impacts of inaccessibility of clean water to the lives of people in water poor communities. Water poor communities have suffered for a long time due to inaccessibility of improved clean water source. Several key impacts affecting their lives are health impacts, educational impacts and productivity impacts. Most of us were born and raised in a decent environment that doesn’t lack water supply. But has it ever come to your mind that what is happening to people on the hellish part on earth with inadequate access to water? Have you ever wondered how hard did they struggle in order to sustain their lives?

Kenya, a country located on the eastern coast of Africa is currently facing a critical water crisis. For years, water paucity has been a huge issue in Kenya because of persisting droughts, weak management of water supply, and increased demand of water due to the rapid population growth. Most of the downtown poor Kenyans only have contaminated water accessible to them. Drinking contaminated water can be hazardous to health and death too is a possible outcome. In 2009, there were 11,769 cases of cholera and 274 deaths resulted by it. Due to the lack of clean water, sanitation is another problem. Absence of sanitation increases the risk to infections and diarrheal diseases within people living with HIV and AIDS. In sub-Saharan Africa, women and girls account for 60 percent of all HIV infections. With improved access to water and sanitation facilities, burden on households caring for AIDS-affected members is reduced.

Other than Cholera and HIV, there are still a whole lot of mycobacterial infections associated with the consumption of contaminated water such as tuberculosis. Consuming unclean water from source...

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