And those raindrops are the source of disease for many children without safe drinking water.
Anabel is drinking herself to death. Slowly and surely. Her mom knows this is "sick" water, but they have no other.
The very rain that creates polluted puddles kids often have to drink from can be caught, stored and shared in rain-catchment tanks.
What can you get from drinking polluted water?
Cholera, dysentery, diarrhea, encephalitis, gastroenteritis, hepatitis, leptospirosis, poliomyelitis, salmonellosis, and typhoid fever.
We never found out which of the life-threatening diseases she might have had. He mother only said she had been drinking "sick water" because it's all they had.
We never did find out which of these the little girl in the photo brought by canoe by her mother suffered from.
All she did was take a sip of disease-bearing water from a water-hole.
Rosita often paddles up to 3 hours a day to fill her mother's jugs with water. But however far upstrream she goes it's still often polluted by animal and human feces.
Kids like Rosita often paddle for hours to fill a canoe-full of jugs with water that might be a little safer, or could just as easily be contaminated by animal and human feces.
Kids get thirsty and drink whatever water is at hnd, sometimes with deadly consequences.
But the same rainwater that creates contaminated puddles can be caught, stored and shared.
The same rainwater -- for indigenous schools and villages.
Raindrops do keep falling.
What counts is if they’re caught and shared before thirsty kids drink them from a polluted puddle.
–Joe Bass
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