Water related Stresses of East and South Africa.

Eastern and Southern Africa (especially the Horn) have been recently been under great pressure from contamination in the welled drinking water. In these arid regions, water is obviously an extremely precious finite resource, which must be managed properly, or else great numbers of people will face imminent death. Africa's wells have recently been experiencing contamination by the microbe Vibrio cholera, a bacterium that causes Cholera. They symptoms of Cholera are dehydration, headache, stomach cramping and severe diarrhea. If a person goes untreated with various batteries of antibiotics, this bacterial infection can run havoc on your digestive system and cause death. UNICEF, a leader in humanitarian aid and Global health has identified Cholera contaminated water as an epidemic that must be fought. Stagnate conditions of water holes, combined with the equatorial heat, can turn these water sources into incubators for this microbe. UNICEF provided over 10 million dollars in recent years to work with officials in populated areas to help enact filtration methods to clean water sources, but much work is still needed. To Read more visit :http://www.unicef.org/har07/index_37421.htm