Ted Poe: “As the Sun rises each morning in Africa, Angelina gathers water for her family. But the community water well in…”

“As the Sun rises each morning in Africa, Angelina gathers water for her family. But the community water well in Muyayano, Malawi, is broken most every day. So she and other women like her are forced to go 10 miles to fetch water from a polluted river, water that is bacterially infested with waste, parasites, and other insects. Going to the smelly river is physically hard. But it is also emotionally hard because Angelina's 2-year-old daughter got sick and died from the bug-infested river water, a girl similar to this one. But Angelina goes to the river because she has no other option. Every 21 seconds, a child dies from water-related diseases. By the time I finish talking, three children will die. This ought not to be. Representative Blumenauer and I have introduced the Water for the World Act. This will make U.S. water aid more efficient, and it will be more coordinated. We have it within our power to fix this tragedy so that mothers in Africa don't lose their daughters to polluted drinking water. And that's just the way it is. ____________________”