Safe Drinking Water
Only 21% of Ethiopian population has access to adequate drinking water. Women and children walk for hours to collect water for their families to sometimes only collect contaminated water which only brings on disease. Ethiopia experiences droughts and when this happens water-related diseases skyrocket. Some diseases caused by unsafe drinking water are: diarrhoea, cholera, fluorosis, guinea worm disease, intestinal worms, malaria, schistosomiasis, trachoma and typhoid.