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• NEWS_POSTED_BY: Haiti Place
• NEWS_POSTED_ON: Oct 01, 2015
• Views : 695
• Category : Haiti News
• Description : The Guardian
  
  Bahare Khodabande
  Monday 28 September 2015 11.26 BST
  
  Story in Photos
• Location : Haiti
• Website : http://www.theguardian.com/cities/gallery/2015/sep/28/cleaning-up-haiti-safest-water-source-contaminating-in-pictures

Overview

• Small plastic water bags may be one of Haiti’s safest and most affordable ways to hydrate – but once discarded, they contaminate its streets and rivers. Now one organisation is cleaning up the capital, Port-au-Prince, and putting this trash epidemic to good use.
  
  Limited access to safe drinking water is an ongoing struggle in Haiti. One of the most popular solutions to this are sachés dlo, 9oz water bags that are sold in every corner of the country. At three bags for five gourdes (about 7p), water bags are an affordable option for a population with a 60% unemployment rate. However, in the capital, Port-au-Prince, many thousands of discarded water bags are clogging up the city’s streets and rivers.
  
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