Like many other Ugandan villages, Bubulo Village faces enormous challenges with multiple issues that adversely affect public health. One major challenge is the ability to access a clean water supply. There is no any source of clean water in this village.
Most of the population rely on surface water instead of groundwater for everything they do like drinking, cooking, washing, and living. They have no way to access groundwater.
This isn’t very safe because surface water is much easier to pollute than groundwater. Naturally, groundwater isn’t contaminated, and it’s often easier to remove contaminants from it than from surface water. Also, when surface water is used up, there’s no real way to restore it. These freshwater sources dry up often, and as they start to recede, the risk of pollution becomes even higher.
*Women walking back home from the water source. It takes them about an hour up the hill with the heavy containers