Tackling Drought in West Africa: Training Illiterate Communities to be Water Experts
March 23, 2015
It hasn’t rained for eight months. It’s 120°F. And it hasn’t rained for eight months. The rivers and boreholes have run dry. Searching for water, people are forced to dig holes in river beds with their bare hands. Twelve feet down and there’s still no water. A dried-up riverbed in Imbina, Burkina Faso. There are…
