Blog #10: Why water access matters to poverty reduction

Summary:
Amanda Klasing has spent about 8 years speaking with women and children of Haiti about their living situations, one important factor that she focuses on is their access to water. There was an earthquake that occurred in the year of 2010, but before this earthquake they had a poor water drainage system, which left many places at a risk for flooding to happen. As a result of the damage many women and children had to go fetch water on their own, causing these kids to miss class. Mothers also had to result in using bad water to care for their sick children, because they had no source of healthy water. Some women even had to give birth in tents or streets with no access to running water. There is an estimate of 800 million people who have been deprived of access of clean drinking water and 2.5 billion lack sanitation. Countries are currently devising a plan to alleviate these problems that are taking place in the United Nations.

Analysis:
 I believe that it is good that Klasing has followed this certain group of people in Haiti for the past 8 years, because it shows that someone id being consistent in trying to find out what problems are and making them known to the public. I don't believe the only goal of this article is show the public that there is a lack of sanitized water in Haiti, but that water is really a primary source that keeps people healthy and living. Many may think that food and shelter is the most important thing, but if you don't have clean water, then you don't have a clean body. These people need to be able to have a clean body to be able to eat. Dirty water is the source of these women's kids becoming sicker and this only result's in fatality and more poverty. The article states that this is an easy fix problem, and if it is such an easy fix then it should be alleviated in no problem. After they do this they can focus on other factors that will help their women and children out of poverty.

http://globalpublicsquare.blogs.cnn.com/2014/03/21/why-water-access-matters-to-poverty-reduction/