The Burden Of Thirst

If the millions of women who haul water long distances had a faucet by their door, whole societies could be transformed.

Aylito Binayo's feet know the mountain. Even at four in the morning she can run down the rocks to the river by starlight alone and climb the steep mountain back up to her village with 50 pounds of water on her back. She has made this journey three times a day for nearly all her 25 years. So has every other woman in her village of Foro, in the Konso district of southwestern Ethiopia. Binayo dropped out of school when she was eight years old, in part because she had to help her mother fetch water from the Toiro River. The water is dirty and unsafe to drink; every year that the ongoing drought continues, the once mighty river grows more...

Accommodation and transport problems are increasing in many large cities. Businesses are encouraged to move to rural areas. Do advantages outweigh disadvantages?

 The movement of organizations from urban areas to less-developed provinces is a solution to various municipal problems, but we cannot turn a blind eye to the shortcomings of this trend. The essay will clarify both sides of the coin, and demonstrate my view that the benefits outweigh the drawbacks.

 On the one hand, it is absurd to say that an organization can easily move from a major city to the countryside without suffering any losses. A change in terms of position may cost a firm, for example, a reduction in the quality of its workforce. Not every employee is willing to resettle down in a faraway...

Abortion: /əˈbɔːrʃn/: Tình trạng nạo phá thai

Brain drain: /breɪn dreɪn/: Tình trạng chảy máu chất xám

Bureaucracy: /bjʊˈrɑːkrəsi/: Thói quan liêu

Child abuse: /tʃaɪld əˈbjuːs/: Lạm dụng trẻ em

Civil rights: /ˈsɪvl raɪts/: Quyền công dân

Cohabitation: /ˌkoʊˌhæbɪˈteɪʃn/: Sống thử

Corruption: /kəˈrʌpʃn/: Nạn ****

Disease: /dɪˈziːz/: Bệnh dịch

Domestic Violence: /dəˈmestɪk ˈvaɪələns/: Bạo lực gia đình

Extreme weather: /ɪkˈstriːm ˈweð.ɚ/: Thời tiết khắc nghiệt

Food security: /fuːd səˈkjʊrəti/: An ninh lương thực

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