For two months out of every year, villagers in Adi Etot live comfortably. Crops flourish in the northern Ethiopian community, and natural springs teem with water. Though the water isn't clean, it's easy to collect.
But for the remaining 10 months of the year, water is scarce. The ground and springs dry up, and families struggle to collect water from sources hours away. This water needs to be poured through cloth to filter out leeches and worms, and even then, it's still contaminated by disease-causing pathogens.
This is life in Adi Etot — or it was, until December 2016 when nonprofit charity: water built a clean water well for the community. Now, the organization wants you to connect with Adi Etot in an effort to make the global water crisis personal. Read more...
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