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Obviously, one of the major impacts of clean water is better health. The people of Malawi use water for most of their meals, so not only do they have to drink the water to stay hydrated, they’re ingesting it with the few meals they have available. Putting this dirty water in your system can cause all sorts of diseases and health risks, as the documentary mentions. Clean water would also help agriculture. It’d give the people of Malawi a better chance of growing certain crops and raising animals for food, whether it be for milk, cheese, or meat. And because water is such a scarce resource, girls and women have to travel several kilometers to even access the little water there is. This means getting up early before school or work, traveling to get the water, traveling back, having to retrieve more water for school or work, traveling back, and then once again doing it in the evening. All this time spent on retrieving water causes a lack of time for education. Also, imagine how hard it is on these young girls’ bodies carrying heavy buckets full of water around all day.
The Peligre Dam was supposedly built to help irrigation and generate power. However, it really only benefited businesses that were mainly American-owned when the dam was built. Because of the flooding caused by the dam, many poor families had to flee their fertile land to go work in factories in the city. Many became sick with AIDS.
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When Charles Banda develops a clean source of water for all of Malawi, so many aspects of their daily life benefit. Not only does access to a clean and reliable source of water contribute to a decrease in water-borne illnesses previously high in the community, but clean water allows for the irrigation of land for agriculture to begin again. The health benefits that resulted from the implementation of a clean water source in Malawi were vast, and were followed with several social and economic benefits in the community as well. The women and girls are those who are responsible for walking to get buckets of water in the early morning, during the day, and in the afternoon/evening. For school girls this set them back academically because they had to wake up extra early before classes, fetch water for the school during class, and get water at home later in the day. This meant that girls would fall behind in school because they were spending valuable time walking far distances to get water that wasn’t even clean while they could be learning and studying. Lack of water and proper sanitation along with the chores that were expected to be completed by women and girls in the community, drop-out rates in schools for females were high as they increased in age. The journey to find water in all hours of the day, put women and girls in danger of being sexually assaulted, harassed, and more. By having a clean source of water closer to their homes and communities, women and girls saved time and were able to focus on other areas of living. Closer water helped them socially progress because the men were more inclined to help when sources of water were closer. Water sources allowed for economic benefits as well, increasing agricultural productivity. Overall, a ready source of clean water creates decreased disease and death related to water-borne risks, helps to improve overall hygiene and health by promoting hand-washing, and helps the social and economic lives of the people in the community of Malawi.
After the U.S. built the Peligre Dam, the poor people of Haiti suffered the consequences. Families that relied on and lived by the river were forced to leave their lives by the water- gardens, animals, and more, and live somewhere in the hills around the area. This caused lack of land for agriculture, lack of water for the people, and also disputes among the people over land. The U.S. then decided to kill all of their beloved pigs- all they had left- which they had used for currency. This caused the poor of Haiti to struggle heavily economically and resulted in loss of land, food, and water. These Haitians then didn’t have the ability to enroll in schoo
