Comments on: Africa, Malthus and Eugenics http://reducetheburden.org/?p=1058 Tue, 07 Sep 2010 21:41:02 +1000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Sepp Hasslberger http://reducetheburden.org/?p=1058&cpage=1#comment-153 Sepp Hasslberger Sun, 15 Feb 2009 09:24:24 +0000 http://reducetheburden.org/?p=1058#comment-153 <em>I asked, where’s the clean water? That, she said, was a problem. I asked, how do you tell dysentery, cholera, TB, malaria and sepsis, and all the rest of what occurs, from AIDS? That, she said, was the problem.</em> Of course there are a thousand solutions for clean water, and people are digging wells and doing great works. But what can the Africans themselves do when all they have (if they are lucky) is water from a river or a lake that more often than not will be contaminated and cause them to get sick? Here's a simple method for cleaning your water. Let the sun sterilize it. <a href="http://www.newmediaexplorer.org/sepp/2006/03/24/lowtech_solar_water_purification_it_works.htm" rel="nofollow">Low-tech solar water purification</a> And as you mention food, some smart people have found a way to grow sufficient food for a family and more in a neat little thing they call a "keyhole garden". Check it out. Video: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjcjCCx3BWY" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjcjCCx3BWY</a> <a href="http://www.sendacow.org.uk/schools/africangardens/keyholegardens" rel="nofollow">http://www.sendacow.org.uk/schools/africangardens/keyholegardens</a> I asked, where’s the clean water? That, she said, was a problem. I asked, how do you tell dysentery, cholera, TB, malaria and sepsis, and all the rest of what occurs, from AIDS?

That, she said, was the problem.

Of course there are a thousand solutions for clean water, and people are digging wells and doing great works. But what can the Africans themselves do when all they have (if they are lucky) is water from a river or a lake that more often than not will be contaminated and cause them to get sick?

Here’s a simple method for cleaning your water. Let the sun sterilize it.

Low-tech solar water purification

And as you mention food, some smart people have found a way to grow sufficient food for a family and more in a neat little thing they call a “keyhole garden”. Check it out.

Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjcjCCx3BWY

http://www.sendacow.org.uk/schools/africangardens/keyholegardens

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