Something the media rarely talks about is third world countries and the struggles they endure. Countries such as Africa, parts of Latin America, and the Soviet Union don’t have the same advances first world countries are gifted with. This makes washing clothes, gathering clean food, and bathing all hard tasks to accomplish on a day-to-day basis.
One of the most prominent struggles Africa faces is the demand for clean water. Diseases such as malaria and typhoid run rampant in the waters of Africa, and if they’re is no clean water for villages, people will be forced to drink whatever water is near them. This water is not filtered and will most likely create negative side effects when Africans drink this water.
Living in America, running water is supplied to us. We don’t even think about the hardships we would endure if running water was non-existent in our country.
Africa does not have running water, this means women must make the long voyage to wells in order to keep their villages safe.
It is extremely physical work, and it takes a lot of time to walk to these wells and back. Also, this responsibility is ultimately left up to the females.
People in the peace core would be concerned with issues like this water crisis. After college I hope to join the peace core, to help cover issues like this so that people in first world countries can see the hardships women and men face in these nations.
This article focuses on how these women in Africa make this lengthy and back-breaking trek to the watering holes almost everyday. It is necessary that people bring these issues to the media and issues like this need to become prominent in news programs all around the world.
Third world counties are still struggling with things like this. Shinning light on these issues is important. We need to see how the other side lives.
Carolyns Commentary 
It’s interesting you used that first picture you have in the post. I’m not sure if the article you read talks about them or just focuses on the women carrying the water. That blue and white tube the kids are drinking out of are actually LifeStraws. Straws which purify water as it gets sucked through them, like a brita filter but it works instantly and you can just put one end in a stream and drink. Humanitarian agencies are currently trying to get as many as they can to every underdeveloped country. But yeah, you still have to carry the water into town first, so it doesn’t help the women who have to walk to the well and back each day. Still, amazing piece of technology saving thousands of lives that not many people know about.
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