Water is one of the essentials of life, but in Liberia, it appears as if safe-drinking water has become a luxury, and is rapidly getting beyond the reach of the country's less privilege majority, leaving behind unimaginable attending consequences.
In the past six years, the provision of safe-drinking water by the Ellen Johnson Sirleaf administration has largely remained a publicity stunt than a reality. And the scarcity of the basic social service has paradoxically boom the trade of bottled mineral water in most parts of Liberia.
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