Water Crisis in the Azawak

Amman Imman: Water is Life is building permanent water sources in the Azawak of West Africa, a region in Niger and Mali where people are dying due to the lack of water. A changing climate has shortened the rainy season to less than 2 months in this vast region. During this short time, the people get their water by digging in the marshes. When these dry up, they travel long distances to unsustainable deep open wells. To pull the water from these deep well takes enormous human and animal energy, provides contaminated water, and often dries up as well.

Clean water does flow in the Azawak, deep under the ground. Too deep to reach without mechanical equipment. Amman Imman: Water is Life is drilling boreholes, the only structure that can reach the sustainable aquifers, and the only hope for the half million people of the region.

Water is Life. You can help bring this hope to the people of the Azawak.
http://www.ammanimman.org/

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