utILIty WEEK | 9th - 15th January 2015 |
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Community
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Paulino's two month
old son died before the
borehole was installed.
But now as Chair of
the local Water Com-
mittee, he is proud to
maintain the pump
that provides clean
water, safe for his fam-
ily to drink.
"In our community
the men have to shave
their heads when
somebody dies and for
many years there were
lots of deaths, so I was
bald most of the time.
But now I am an old
man and I have hair
again!"
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Like hilda, Catarina Muririma has also lost children because she had no choice but to give them dirty water to drink.
"My daughter tiana started with stomach pain, and then she had diarrhoea," remembers Caterina. "then, after diarrhoea
she was still getting sick, afterwards she passed away."
❹ here, Catarina is pictured collecting dirty water from a source near the village of Cuvir in niassa province, Mozambique, with
her daughters Lucrecia (11, centre) and ruth (9, right).
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Wateraid calculates
that safe water for
everyone, everywhere
would generate global
economic benefits of
a minimum of $220
billion (£142 billion)
a year.
the transforma-
tion that clean water
brings is dramatic. In
this picture, Paulino
Jiremba, from ner-
culo, Mozambique,
holds a cup of clean
water from a pump
installed by Wateraid
and aDECO in 2012.
All
photos:
WaterAid/
Panos/Adam
Patterson
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