Safe water for a thirsty world
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During college at Belmont University, Mark Hogg went on a mission trip to build a dam in what is now Burkina Faso, a small, land-locked country in western Africa.
The 20-year-old and his fellow college students drove five hours from civilization to a remote village where they spent long hours digging ditches and mixing concrete to make a bigger dam so rains could provide more water for people. It was a culture shock.
“People were bringing their cattle, goats and sheep there to water them,” he remembered. “They brought their children to bathe and they, of course, brought containers to fill. The children would play in the filthy water next to the animals, and it was a horrible thing to learn what was happening to people in that community because of the water.”
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