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"LAAOUISSATE, Morocco - Before a standpipe was installed to bring clean
drinking water to her village, Saadia El Haddouri’s seven children usually
drank the untreated water used to irrigate crops. She knew it was not healthy
and one of her sons got so sick one year from the contaminated water that he
had to go to the hospital.
But the family had little choice. The alternative was to walk 10 kms to fetch
clean water, which took up much of the day and often kept children out of
school. Then a water pipe was laid all the way to the village to bring water
from a potable water treatment plant and residents could collect it from a
centrally located standpipe, fitted with a faucet.
“Before, we struggled to get access to clean water,” says El Haddouri. “Girls
and women used to go far to bring it. Now, thank God, the [clean] water is
close to us and girls can go to school.”
El Haddouri’s village of Laaouissate, in the El Jadida area on Morocco’s
Atlantic coast, is one of more than 2,000 douars (as Moroccan villages are
called) to have been connected to a reliable supply of potable water since 2014
under the World Bank-funded “Rural Water Supply Project”."
Via
Future Crunch:
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Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
