By Emily Thomas, Source: Huffington Post

Roughly 1 billion people in the world don’t have access to clean drinking water. Women and girls, who often bear the burden of searching for clean water sources, are often most affected by this issue.

To kick off its campaign for change, nonprofit group Charity:Water has released a new short film on the dearth of clean water in the Sahel — “one of the harshest places to live in the world” — and the toll it takes on the African region’s impoverished women and children.

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