Watering our lawns while kids in Africa drink a muddy, bacteria infested liquid that can barely be called H2O

July 6th, 2008 | Posted in Personal thoughts

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I drove out to the suburbs today to see my grandma. She lives in a upper-class neighborhood full of people who have big houses and big front lawns. Big green front lawns. Grassy. Lush.

I’m a city girl. I live in a condo. It’s easy for me to write this post because I don’t make the choice whether to water my lawn or not. That’s something the strata handles, I assume. Our grass is not brown or patchy, so I imagine we’re doing something to it.

Anyhow, as I drive through my grandmother’s neighborhood this time of year, I can’t help but to notice all the lawn sprinklers. Everybody has them. I guess nobody wants to be the house with the patchy lawn, but it always makes me think of how unfair the world we live in is. I, and most of the people reading this have access to all the clean and clear water we desire, while others spend hours hiking only to bring home something that is muddy and unclean.

I don’t offer any solutions, just some food for thought. Imagine all the kids that could have a clean glass of water, if all we used keeping our lawns pretty this summer went to them.

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Karen Zemek, author of "My Funny Dad, Harry" // July 7th, 2008 at 10:56 am

So true! I am so grateful I am living in America, the land of plenty. I would stop watering my lawn in a second if somehow it would mean that other third world countries would have better water because of it. We really have so much in the USA that we take for granted.

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