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Before and After Safe Water: 20 Powerful Photos

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From the Compassion blog, comes a powerful article about how clean water transforms communities.

In northern Uganda, young Betty once faced a frustrating choice: walk nearly 4 miles to fetch water that cows and pigs also drank from, or drink from the nearby well, which was wriggling with worms. She was one of the 2.2 billion — or 1 in 3 — people around the world who do not have access to safe drinking water, according to UNICEF. The impact means hundreds of thousands of children under 5 die each year from preventable waterborne diseases.

For Betty, a safe water point changed everything. No longer is she one of the shocking statistics — she has clean drinking water at the turn of a tap. Access to safe water changes more than just a child’s health. It can improve their education outcomes and even their family’s financial situation.

See for yourself! Meet Betty and other children whose lives changed after they gained access to safe drinking water.

 

Read the rest of the article here

 

Three Cheers For Smart Water Meters

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These are our smart water meters.

I decided last week to register my meter on the narrabri.miwater.co web site, just to see how much water my household uses. Two days later I got a text that said “Possible leak at your property. 55 l/hr” It seemed a bit unlikely that they would know that, so I got it checked. Sure enough, there was a small leak under the house.

55 l/hr isn’t much in the scheme of things, but it adds up when you multiply it over 24 hours every day. At the current cost of 97 c/kl that was costing me $1.28 per day. Again it’s not much, but over 3 months that adds up to an extra $116 per bill.

I love Narrabri Shire, but I can do better things with my money than pay for wasted water.

So if you use water you need to go to the web site with your water bill in your hand. Sign up and you might end up saving money.

Congratulations to the Shire for making this service available. If we have to have water meters, we might as well have ones that work for the customers.