Podcast n°2: Water Crisis

This is a short video about the global issue of the water crisis worlwide. It shows how The "Lions Clubs International Foundation" helps to provide access to clean water in Africa and Asia. Here are 20 questions about the video to help you understanding what are The LCIF projects.

1/ How many people in the world does not have access to clean water? circle the right answer.

• 1 in 3 people in the world
• 1 in 5 people in the world
• 1 in 8 people in the world

Response: 1 in 8 people in the world does not have access to clean water.

2/ What the Lions Clubs are making a priority?
Lions clubs around are making water-based projects a priority

3/ How many people worlwide are facing economics and health circumstances and why?
Nearly 1 billion people in the world face serious economics and health circumstances because they lack clean water.

4/ In which countries are from the 3 first people interwiewed at the beginning of the video? choose the right answers.

• Malaysia
• China
• Mali
• South Africa
• India

Response: Malaysia; Mali; India;

5/ Why the children are not regularly able to follow the class according to Ramachandran?
The children often feel sick because of no proper water.

6/ Who is Adil Najam?
He is a Climate Change Expert and a co-winner Nobel Peace Price.

7/ What are the 4 majors projects of the LCIF?

• Install water purification systems
• Educating community members about hand and face washing
• Building latrines
• Providing access to clean water sources from Africa to Asia

8/ What local members of the LCIF and neighbours have developped in Kota Kinabalu?
They have developped the infrastructures to bring to a remote but a clean source directly to theirs homes.

9/ Why Rosalind Ludan is happy and how she uses the water?
Rosalind Ludan is happy because she can use clean water for feeding, boiling her daughter's milk and washing her clothes.

10/ What serious health problems are facing villages in Mali due to contaminated water consumption, according to Niajale Diarra?

• Stomach ache and diarrhea
• Children have big tummies from worms in their bellies

11/ Did some children die from stomach ache?

• YES
• NO 

12/ What The LCIF has brought in this village?
Clean water and irrigation.

13/ What have improved these changes?
These changes have improved health conditions and economy.

14/ What villagers are now able to do with these changes?
They give them the ability to grow food to sell in the market.

15/ What women are forced to do when clean water is not accessible? Fill the blanks:
" Women spend hours ........(1)........... and ...........(2).......... heavy water ...........(3)..........."

Response: (1) fetching (2) carrying (3) jugs.

16/ What are the two negative points of doing that?
It is dangerous and disability.

17/ What Rachel is suppose to do when she needs water?
She has to wake-up at 4 am to get water.

18/ How far from her place? choose the right answer:

• 600 meters
• 2 kms
• 5 kms
• 10 kms

19/ To conclude, what The LCIF helps to improve? 3 things.

• Health
• Economic opportunities
• Make a global impact in the water crisis

20/ How many water projects worldwide The LCIF has helped to fund? choose the right one:

• 60
• 100
• 150
• 300