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of five potable water wells 2003-2005Ethiopia - Oromo & Sekota Regions |
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| Clean water is one of the most precious resources known to humanity. | |||
| Today, in the world there
are more than one billion people, particularly in rural areas, who
do not have access to potable water, and it is projected that by 2020,
approximately three billion people will experience serious problems
related to water supply (pollution and contamination of water, lack
of adequate distribution and treatment facilities). Ethiopia is a country currently experiencing a situation of dire emergency, due to the chronic problem of drought which has put the daily minimal supply at risk for several million people; only 27% of the population is able to access sources of potable water. Water is a fundamental element for health in that it is necessary for agriculture and food; the Ethiopian government has given priority to rural development and agriculture and in order to obtain this it is absolutely necessary to ration the availability of potable water. |
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| The Aurora Assicurazioni
S.p.a., insurance company is sensitive to this great emergency
which is jeopardizing the survival of many people in this country,
and has decided , last January 2003 to finance the realization of
a first potable water well that has been completed by the Butterfly
Foundation with the technical support of the NGO COOPI, in the town
of Haro in the Oromo region of the Ethiopian state. The additional
financial contribution of the said insurance company agents, during
their annual convention held in April 2003, allowed the construction
of other two potable water wells in the towns of Adadi and Mugayo,
in the vicinity of the city of Negele and the start up of an agricultural
development program. In January 2005, thanks to the great generosity of such an outstanding insurance Group we started a new water project in the North area of the Country, namely SEKOTA district. Two new hand dug wells, in Babena and Derenzeba have been recently completed and handed over to the local population (beneficiaries: 800 people approx.) |
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| The water supply is a problem that cannot be underestimated in Countries where its solution can guarantee the survival of human beings!! | |||
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of activity“Of all of the social and natural crises
that humanity has found itself confronting,
the water crisis is at the root of survival for man and our planet.
Water resources are diminishing while demand for it is
dramatically increasing at an unsustainable rate.
In the next twenty years the average availability
of water per person will decrease by one third”
Koichiro Matura
Director General, UNESCO
| Ethiopia has the lowest availability of
water in the world and the worst quality, according to an important
study just completed by the United Nations. Addis Ababa, November 2002 Ethiopia is dying of hunger because of the worst and most devastating famine that has hit this country, a nightmare worse than that defeated in 1984 and that caused the death of millions of people. At the moment, people who need immediate assistance number more than six million, but it is feared that the number could rapidly rise to eight million and reach even 14 million by the summer of 2003. This is a tragedy that is playing out in almost complete indifference in worldwide public opinion: ignoring a race against time to intervene to save the Ethiopian population before it is too late |
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Annual population growth: 2,7% |
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Life expectancy at birth: 49 years |
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Infant Mortality (per 1000 live births): 116 deaths |
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Literacy rate: 35% |
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Infantile malnutrition: 47% |
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Access to potable water: 27% |
| The Ethiopian economy, founded on agriculture
and farming, was devastated by four years of drought and the war against
Eritrea, which ended in 2000. The side-effects of the conflict and
chronic lack of water provoked the transfer of the local communities
from their respective native territories with obvious consequences.
Twenty-six million Ethiopians (40% of the rural population) is unable
to even satisfy the minimum need to feed their own families: Ethiopia,
in fact, has the highest rate of malnutrition in the world. According to a study done by the World Bank’s Social Sector, at least two-thirds of the children under six years of age suffer from rickets and more than 10% from malnourishment. In Ethiopia there are thirty million children under age sixteen. Ethiopia is ranked second in Africa for HIV infections and AIDS related deaths. It is estimated that 60-80% of the diseases are caused by malnutrition and infections easily contracted because of the sources of infected water sources. |
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