CRISIS IN GHANA

IS WATER A HUMAN RIGHT OR PRIVILEGE ?

• Water is a human right and everyone should be able to have access to it

DID YOU KNOW ?

• People are dying in Ghana
• Dying from diseases such as Cholera
• Pipes are dried up and old (almost 100 years old)

DIRTY WATER IN OUR WORLD

• Dirty water is almost everywhere
• People drink dirty water because they don't have access to clean water
• New born babies can't take showers because they don't have clean water

HOW DOES CONTAMINATED WATER EFECT HUMANS ?

• 48,000 people die each year from drinking contaminated water
• People have to walk miles to get water
• People drink contaminated water in order to survive
• People in Ghana pay private owners for water that are in tanks and might be contaminated

WATER BORNE DISEASES

GLOBAL AND LOCAL CAUSE THAT AFFECT PEOPLE

• People in Ghana are paying a quarter of there income for water that is contaminated
• Drinking polluted water
• Killing their food sources (fish)
• Runoff is affecting the water by carrying sediments and materials to the ocean