Why do Africans have to walk so far for water? Why don't they move?
There's a lot of adverts, here in the UK at least, showing African children walking 10 miles for fresh water. Why don't they move closer to the water? I don't mean this to come across as racist and I'm sure there's perfectly legitimate reasons, but I'm just not sure what those reasons actually are
Posted Apr 4, 2018, 9:38 PM UTC
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Moving isn't so easy in that situation, is it? How would you carry a whole village for 10 miles? The location of the water source also changes, odds are there was water near the village at the time it was built. Sometimes there are droughts and you have to walk even further. Depends on a whole lot of climatic conditions.