Providing Safe Drinking Water to Rural Communities throughout Africa

by Bobby Neptune on February 9, 2012

According to the UN, more than one in six people worldwide lack access to the proper amount of safe water. Curable diseases such as diarrhea and other water-borne illnesses are ravaging through the developing world. In Uganda alone, 10-million people, nearly one third of the entire population lacks access to safe and clean water.

Safe water installations are sometimes a difficult proposition as many rural communities throughout Uganda and Africa lack basic utilities such as electricity that would be needed to pump water. Water Missions International is on the front lines of designing and implementing safe water solutions and sanitation systems around the world. They are combining state-of-the art solar technology with pump and filtration systems designed to operate specifically in difficult areas. WMI partners with rural communities not only to provide safe water solutions, but also educate through intensive community development programs.

Currently, 80 percent all diseases contracted in rural African villages are water-borne; caused by lack of access to proper, safe water. WMI is implementing safe water solutions that will hopefully bring an end to these diseases.

For more information: http://www.watermissions.org

The following images were shot for Water Missions International in Musoli, Uganda. Musoli is one of 17 communities in Uganda that has received a safe water project in the past 12 months. Musoli has a population of over 2000 people.