A Long Walk To Water Summary

A Long Walk to Water by Linda Sue Park describes what life is like for a girl who does not have access to clean water. Nya, 11, lives in South Sudan in 2008. She, like most girls and women, have the job of getting water for her family. Unfortunately, it is not always easy to get water. She has to walk long distances to a pond to collect dirty, contaminated water in jugs. Her family must move every year during the dry season to a temporary camp, where again, Nya has to dig into a lakebed and wait for the filthy water to seep up. Here, her little sister Akeer gets sick. After walking to a clinic, the doctor tells the family that she is sick from the water and they must boil it from now on. Then, one day some strangers drive up and say