Clean Water In Haiti

Water is one of the six nutrients needed for a human being to survive. Though everyone needs water, not everyone can get clean water. Haiti has the worst water treatment in the Western Hemisphere (¨Water¨). The water in Haiti is riddled with Cholera and Typhoid however, the water treatment can be improved by sending LifeStraw Missions to the people of Haiti.

Problem Cholera is a disease that is not hard for residents in Haiti to catch because of the poor water treatment. It is a disease caused by a bacteria called Vibrio Cholerae that´s found in water and food that gets contaminated by human stool. In Haiti, only 24% of people have access to a working toilet according to the World Bank. It causes severe diarrhea, which leads to dehydration
One solution is an atmospheric water generator. It had a lot of great quality´s like it can generate 3,000 gallons of drinkable clean water a day (¨Atmospheric¨) however, the air quality has to be clean to produce clean water. According to Gail Bambrick, the ¨air-quality monitor used would blacken in just 30 minutes in Port-au-Prince...That compares to the 10 to 20 hours it took to blacken filters when...studied U.S.¨ (¨Researches¨). Another solution is to build a desalination plant in Haiti. Making salt water into drinkable water though, requires a great deal of energy. According to the USAID ¨Only about one-quarter of the population (in Haiti) have access to electricity. Of these consumers, half are connected to the electrical grid illegally,¨ (Energy). Consequently, there is not enough energy to supply a desalination plant in Haiti. Another idea was to get a water truck for each neighborhood to bring water from their water source to Haitians homes. It could have worked like it did in California with the drought (Daniels). However there are still problems with this endeavor. First of all the geography is too hard for the water truck to move efficiently. Secondly the source of clean and useable water could run dry faster. Third the air pollution could rise quicker, causing more problems.

The solution explored here is sending LifeStraw
One LifeStraw Mission can purify up to 18,000 liters before it breaks or stops functioning, therefore it can give clean water to one person for 3 ⅓ years. For 33 cents a day over just one year one Haitian can have clean water for three and a third years. The life expectancy for a resident of Haiti is 63 according to the World Bank in 2013 (¨Haiti¨). It would cost 2,280 dollars for one Haitian to have and use clean drinking water for the rest of their lives. Given the population of Haiti is 10.93 as of Sunday, February 12, 2017 (¨Haiti Population¨) it would cost 24.92 billion U.S dollars for everyone to have clean water for the rest of their lives. If this program was to partner with Lady Gaga it could raise money by having a nationwide high school competition. Whichever high school raises the most money will get a Lady Gaga concert at their