Day 383 - Water

A Global Crisis

• 783 million people in the world do not have access to safe water. this is roughly one in ten of the world's population.
• 2.5 billion people in the world do not have access to adequate sanitation, almost two fifths of the world's population.
• Around 700,000 children die every year from diarrhea caused by unsafe water and poor sanitation - that's almost 2,000 children a day. 
• Women in Africa and Asia often carry water on their heads weighing 20kg, the same as the average UK airport luggage allowance. 
• 1.1 billion people live more than a kilometre from their water source and use just five litres of unsafe water a day. 
• The average person in the UK used 150 litres of water a day. In Australia, around 500 litres, and in the USE, over 570 Litres. 
• Water in Accra, Ghana, costs three times as much as in New York. 

Borehole - the generalized term for any narrow shaft bored in the ground, either vertically or horizontally. Typically, a borehole used as a water well is completed by installing a vertical pipe (casing) and well screen to keep the borehole from caving. This also helps prevent surface contaminants from entering the borehole and protects any installed pump from drawing in sand and sediment. 

When I was living in the tent camp, the camps water was stored in a 500 litre water tank. At times the water delivered was from a borehole but it was more often from the Nile. Nothing like showering under a stream of brownish water. BUT it was water so it did not matter. A shower was a shower regardless of the condition of the water. When it was brown you just didn't brush your teeth with it.

After living with 6 hours of water per day since November, and the occasional bucket shower, we have water 24/7. No scrambling to have a shower before nine pm. No limitations.

 This is how we do water in Juba.