Fighting the Scourge of the Guinea Worm

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Long Wait
Children work to retrieve water from a well drilled in Wantugu. Though several such wells have been installed to solve the village's severe water shortage, the water table in the ground is very low, and it can often take up to forty-five minutes to fill a single pan of water.

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