Where do Haitians get their drinking water????

The outbreak of cholera in Haiti is a very real and scary thing. It is hard enough to take all the precautions to drink clean water, cook with clean water and bathe with clean water on a normal day. Well, what would you do? Walk an hour farther both ways to get clean drinking water or just take your chances with the water that is closet? I know your answer but if you were in their situation you might choose differently. Tons of children like these get there drinking water every day from sources like those in the pictures I have shown below. Tonight, many are
dead. The cholera acted so quickly, no one even had time to warn them. The voodoo beliefs cause them to question seriously whether someone is out to destroy Haiti by poisoning their drinking water. This is a common practice to get
rid of the enemy in Haiti, poisoning food or drink. Needless to say there are many who are
suspicious and can't understand how or why many are sick and dying.
We are told that if you act quickly and get the person started on an IV and antibiotics that it can be treated rather quickly. The hospital at the town of St. Marc is the one we would normally go to. It is about twenty-five miles from Carries. The doors of this hospital have been closed and police are guarding the gates. This is for three reasons: they don't have enough space to put people and they are laying people on the floor because there aren't enough beds, they don't have enough staff, IV fluids and medicine to treat everyone and they don't want those who aren't contaminated coming in and running the very high risk of contaminating themselves and others.

We do not use river water or water from the canal at Carries. Our source comes from the mountains. However, on both sides of us, they use the river and canal water. Preparing, we have bought IV fluids to have on hand and antibiotic injections. We told our school children about all the precautions to take in washing their hands and boiling their drinking water. Please, I am asking your prayers, once again for the people of Haiti. We ask for God's hand to remain on us. We pray for protection against this and that God would keep us all in good health. We pray that this would be contained very soon and that there would be an end to the suffering.

If you could just pray about this tomorrow, maybe everytime you go to do something that involves water, drinking, taking a shower, etc. it would be very much appreciated. May God bless and keep you . dee