Millions worldwide don’t have clean water yet we complain here
From where I stand, in South Sudan, the protesting crowds in Ireland are small indeed compared to the population worldwide who have never had a glass of clean water to drink.
When you turn on your tap, or shower, any hour of the day or night, you get clean water. Please count your blessings.
Next time you turn that tap or press that shower button, think of the millions of people who do not have piped water in their houses.
In Malakai, we queue at a clean-water source for hours in temperatures of 40 degrees, while water trickles from one tap — there might be 100 women in the line ahead of me.
During the rainy season, this water is coloured brown, so we bring it home and boil it and are happy to do so.
Often, these water sources break down from overuse, so then we go to the Nile. Its waters are used for cleaning fish and for washing cars and clothes etc.
But this is also the source of drinking water for thousands of people.
I am lucky as I drive to the Nile. I know many women who walk 40 minutes to this water source, every morning, to bring home 20 litres of water, for which they pay.
To all of us Irish people, I say let us be thankful for what we have.
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