The world's water crisis has many faces. A girl in Africa walks three miles before school to fetch water from a distant well. A teenage boy in China is afflicted with terrible skin lesions because his village well is contaminated with arsenic. Impoverished slum dwellers in Angola draw drinking water from the local river where their sewage is dumped. Farmers on the lower reaches of the Colorado River struggle because water has been diverted to cities like Las Vegas and Los Angeles.

UN Water Photo Essay

• Improving sanitation worldwide

Educational Resources

• Links for Teachers
• Lesson Plan: Water for Life [.doc]
• Water, Environment and Sanitation (UNICEF)
• Links for Students
• Water Alert Game (UNICEF)
• Pumped Up for Peace
• Water Quiz

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