The featured story, “End of a River?” gives great details on
a personal experience that the author, Mr. Jonathan Waterman and his companion,
Pete McBride, experienced. Mr. Waterman explains upon what they saw while they
were traveling in Mexico. They saw children flipping stones into the river
known as El Rio Colorado, and he hoped that the river does not stop. He
explains that the Colorado River has been engineered to death; stating, “more
than 100 dams and 1,000 miles of canals divert its water to most every farm
industry and city within a 250-mile radius of the river.” They wandered for 10
days and he eventually stop holding his breath.
The video, “Water Crisis in sub-Saharan Africa,” explains in
a condense form of the water crisis that is detrimental there. It consist of 3
big villages, and their only access to water is containment water filled with
animal manure. It doesn’t not clean, nature does its part, but its not filtrated
or anything, so its not helpful for humans to drink. Water that is containment
leads to cholera, and many other bacteria diseases, which could lead to death
quite easily without access to proper health care.
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