Lack of access to clean water affects millions of people each year. It causes widespread water-borne diseases such as diarrhea which
can be deadly, and it greatly affects a family’s income, with large amounts of money being spent on healthcare,
and also the pay that was lost in the time off of work needed to recover from the illness.
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The Lack of Access To Clean Water in Uganda Affects...
Health
The biggest problem pertaining to the Uganda water crisis is the millions of people who are affected each year by
water-borne diseases such as diarrhea. In the world, millions die each year as the effect of the water sanitation crisis,
and in Uganda alone, 23,000 people die each year. Poor health contributes to a poor quality of life for the victim.
Poverty
Along with the terrible health affects that unsanitary water can have on these people, the cost of health care is a massive burden
on the already-poor Ugandan families living in the affected rural and small town areas. Along with the cost of healthcare, the sick are
taking time off of work to get better, or the healthy are taking time off of work to treat the sick. This results in a vicious cycle
of sickness leading to poverty.
Education
Many people have to forfeit their education for reasons concerning the lack of access to clean water resources in the world.
This usually happens when children are sick, and unable to go to school. This also happens when the children are forced to work
to support their families who are in need of medicine, or just to make up for the profit lost during the time that they were ill.
Economy
Uganda's economy is also greatly affected ny the lack of water sanitation.
When time is taken off of work to recover from a water-bourne illness, not only is the person affected,
but the country as a whole is. The less people work, the less money that is going around, and the less services that are
available for other countries to buy.
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The lack of access to clean water in Uganda is affecting many aspects of of the quality of life of the citizens,
as well as how well the county is doing as a whole.
The water sanitation crisis affects millions each day, and without a safe and reliable solution, millions will continue to suffer.
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