It's very painful to live a life using contaminated water. The only river where people can draw water is about four miles away and it runs for only three months in a year. When these resources have dried up, children must walk over 11 miles in search of water. The quality of the rainwater, when it is available to our community is very poor. It is highly contaminated by animals.
People drink from the same sources shared by farm animals as well as wild creatures.
Many health problems in this area are caused by the tainted water. All of this could only be avoided if there was a source of clean water. Children fall victim to these water-borne diseases most of all. The atmosphere for learning is influenced by poverty, lack of clean water and poor sanitation. Early in the morning we sometimes miss morning classes to go about 2 miles away to fetch water for drinking in the classroom for Ndanugu River.