Water Use in Haiti

1) My reaction to the documentary we watched in class was shock and disbelief. I've heard before from other documentaries that big companies in the food industry have a lot of control and do terrible manipulative things to get ahead in the system but I never expected it from beverage companies, especially Nestle! It's sad to me that water is becoming vanquished in some countries and that it's happening due to greed of a company and that so many people in Canada are unaware. We are so fortunate that in Canada clean drinking water is literally accessible just by a tap in our homes yet we still go out and buy it from these companies that are taking it from less well off countries where villagers are dying from lack of clean water, it's really disturbing and heartbreaking on a whole new level. The documentary gave me a whole new insight and appreciation for the ease of survival that we have in Canada and I do not think it's right what these corporations are doing whatsoever and I agree 100% that the villagers should protest and fight for clean water as well as their rights to survival.

2) Haiti has the lowest rates of accessibility to improved water and sanitation infrastructure in the western hemisphere. After the earthquake in 2010, Haiti's water supply and sanitation was left in an even more detrimental state than prior to. Only 69% of Haiti's population has access to an improved water source and 17% had access to improved sanitation facilities in 2010. This raises a huge issue as due to the highly dense population in such a small Island in addition to the Cholera outbreak that occurred due to bacterium contaminated drinking water after the earthquake, over 8927 Haitians deceased due to this pandemic and the lack of sanitary drinking water. Unsanitary drinking water and Cholera is still an ongoing issue in which they can tackle with donated funds for water treatments and vaccinations for sick patients.

Treatment of Cholera victims