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Water Crisis In Latin America
Did you know that around one billion people live without clean water? The water crisis is occurring in parts of Latin America, Sub saharan Africa, and South east Asia. The women and children have to get the water which is about a three hour walk, and the water isn’t even clean. For our class we did a water walk to try to experience what they do everyday. What I would change to make the water walk more authentic is less talking, harder terrain, and more water to carry.
During our water we talked, only carried one gallon, and the terrain was easy to walk. What we did was is that we could talk to one another. Which was good for some people because they like to talk. In addition to our walk, we did was we only carried one gallon of water. Some

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