Dry boreholes, dry wells: changing weather patterns deepens Atebubu’s water crisis — but new solutions offer hope

At 4:00 every morning, 40-year-old Fati Abdullai wakes up with one goal: to find water. Carrying two metal bowls on her head, she walks through the dark streets of Atebubu in Ghana’s Bono East Region. If she is lucky, she returns home with just two bowls of water. But even that is not enough. “You […]


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