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United Nations doing good job in arid areas

The United Nations estimates that sub-Saharan Africa loses 40 billion hours per year looking for water.

In most of Kenya’s water-scarce regions, this invariably involves an already poorly-nourished mother lugging a 20kg jerrycan for about three hours every day under 40°C while  often carrying a baby on her back.

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