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Not Everyone Has Access To Clean Water
There’s nothing like carrying five gallon jugs of water from a store to a tiny boat and climbing onto a rickety dock to make you aware of how much water you actually drink in a day.
I love water. Love to drink it, swim in it, cook with it, occasionally fill a water gun with it to shoot my cat when she tries to steal food; and while I may not shower everyday, I don’t know what I would do without water to bathe in.
Water is one of the main reasons we decided not to live in Bocas del Toro, Panama. The water pumped into our taps from the city tank isn’t really potable. Sure, many drank it, and no one became terribly ill, but the water from our sink, shower and toilet flowed yellow and smelled awful. Those who drank it, tended to walk around with constant stomach trouble. Even in a place like Bocas where rain fell abundantly year round, sometimes incessantly for weeks on end, still people wouldn’t have clean water because rain water catchment isn’t cheap. I supposed you could set out jugs and bowls to collect water, but how long can you leave them sitting in a place when dengue fever or other mosquito born illness are a real health issue.
Leigh Shulman
We used to live in Brooklyn. Then, we sold our apartment, our things and left New York to explore the world. We now find ourselves in Salta, Argentina where we will live for as long as seems right. I continue to write my blog, thefutureisred but what was once about travel has now become horribly self indulgent and is filled with whatever I feel like writing. It could be fiction, politics, parenting, anything.
