I chose to talk to my host mom about the social issue of safe water and the environment. I guess this would fall under the umbrella of poverty… not quite sure. Either way, while we were washing clothes I began to ask her where the water we were using came from. She told me that her mother-in-law has a well at her house and with the use of tubing Tania and her family get water. I asked her if that’s how everyone in Maria Jesus de Olivas received water. She replied that no, even though the community has electricity, most people do not have access to running or other source of water (besides the river). I then asked what she thought about that. She said it’s okay most of the time but at times people do get sick from using the river water as drinking water. I asked her to elaborate and she did; she mentioned diarrhea among other things. Tania then began to talk about CARE’s new water project that hopes to provide running water with a new piping system. She talk very graciously about CARE. After talking to her I realized that while clean water is very much appreciated; it’s not necessarily the number one issue in this community.
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