Chapel Hill project trying to bring safe water to CambodiaBy Prashant Nair, Special to The Chapel Hill News
Editor's note: This is the first of two articles on the Carolina Global Water Partnership.
Ka Har, a mushroom grower from the Angkor Ban village in Cambodia, lives on the banks of one of the world's longest rivers, the Mekong river of Southeast Asia.
One of Har's biggest concerns was getting safe drinking water for his family. Harvesting rainwater and boiling water from the river kept Har and his family disease-free.
That was until June 2006, when Har, 55, heard a radio ad for a newly developed water filter and saw a demonstration in his village. Ever since he bought one for his home, he has stopped worrying.
Har is one of 11 million rural Cambodians whose lives may be changed by an initiative conceived several thousand miles away in Chapel Hill.
The Carolina Global Water Partnership is a collaborative project to prevent children in Southeast Asia from dying of water-borne diseases by bringing safe water to their homes. Diarrhea accounts for more than 80 percent of the deaths among Cambodian children under 5 years of age.
Mark Sobsey, an environmental scientist at the UNC School of Public Health, heads the project, which is trying to bring inexpensive, household water purifiers to rural Cambodia.
One of Har's biggest concerns was getting safe drinking water for his family. Harvesting rainwater and boiling water from the river kept Har and his family disease-free.
That was until June 2006, when Har, 55, heard a radio ad for a newly developed water filter and saw a demonstration in his village. Ever since he bought one for his home, he has stopped worrying.
Har is one of 11 million rural Cambodians whose lives may be changed by an initiative conceived several thousand miles away in Chapel Hill.
The Carolina Global Water Partnership is a collaborative project to prevent children in Southeast Asia from dying of water-borne diseases by bringing safe water to their homes. Diarrhea accounts for more than 80 percent of the deaths among Cambodian children under 5 years of age.
Mark Sobsey, an environmental scientist at the UNC School of Public Health, heads the project, which is trying to bring inexpensive, household water purifiers to rural Cambodia.
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