Waiting for Water in Liberia
Almost a decade after the end of a 14-year long civil war that destroyed Liberia's existing water systems, infrastructure remains underdeveloped. Only 17 percent of Liberia's 3.9 million people have access to adequate sanitation, according to the international non-governmental organization WaterAid.
PHOTO ESSAYS: Liberia: Pipe Dreams - Waiting for Water in Monrovia
Refuse by the riverside next to a public toilet in Monrovia.
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Liberia: Tapping Official and Grassroots Efforts On Water
allAfrica, 19 November 2012
In July 1990, as then-rebel leader Charles Taylor's National Patriotic Front of Liberia advanced on Monrovia, Taylor's guerrilla fighters attacked the White Plains water treatment… Read more »
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Liberia: Pipe Dreams - Waiting for Water in Monrovia
allAfrica, 19 November 2012
"The hanging latrines" of West Point are not one of Liberia's most celebrated beauty spots. But this modest collection of elevated toilets, erected on the banks of the Mesurado… Read more »
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