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I remember reading reports when I was younger about organizations that were digging wells in Africa. I always imagined that those wells were necessary because people didn't have water at all or it was very hard to come by. They were emphasizing the wells as being a vital project for Africa, which considering my understanding of the issue seemed obvious: you have no water you die.
While still being far from the actual places that those reports were referring to, North Africa did a good job at teaching me that the situation is slightly more complicated. It's not that there wasn't any water at all but rather that the quality of the existing water sources left a lot to be desired. After all, had there been no water at all people in those regions of Africa would have died long before some international organization got around to getting the idea that they needed to dig wells.
A couple of days ago I trustfully drank water out of a bottle that had been tampered with. Nothing much in the way of tampering, the content had been simply replaced or mixed with tap water. The results were incredibly unpleasant. I understood that the huge problem in Africa is not the lack of water resulting in death but rather the existence of bad water sources resulting in sickness which then in turn result in drastically reduced life expectancy across the board.
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