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Photo from Onambutu Village, Namibia
 
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Children carry water containers to school that they will fill on the way home. They live four kilometers away from a tap. Notice the road—the government plows and waters it during the dry season to prevent it from getting too dry, dusty, and dangerous to drive on.

by Deirdre Deakyne
Onambutu Village, Namibia (1999)

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