Just Add Water Documentary

What inspired Salva to start Water for Sudan?

• experiencing his father's illness from contaminated water

• being thirsty in the Akobo Desert

• walking so far during the Sudanese Civil War

• Seeing Nya have to walk so far to collect water

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Why don't most Sudanese tribes have established towns with clinics, schools, and other businesses?

• They cannot afford such things.

• They don't know to build such things.

• They have to leave and move somewhere else during the dry season.

• Other rival tribes will just burn it all down.

What challenges does Salva's team often face? Select all that apply.

• traveling long distances on bad roads

• they work 7 days a week in extreme heat

• cannot drill during the wet season

• the Nuer attack their crews

Facts like, "15% of children die before age 6" are used to...

• get us to give money to the children of Sudan

• support the claim that there is a water crisis in Sudan

• support the effort to end the Sudanese Civil War

• convince Salva to return to Sudan

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Why don't local volunteers and villagers know for sure when the equipment will arrive?

• it is hard to communicate in South Sudan; there is little cell phone coverage

• the crew often forgets where they should be

• the equipment takes a long time to move

• the volunteers are coming from a great distance away

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Why can't they work in the wet season?

• people don't like to be out in all that rain

• the trucks and equipment sink in the mud

• the rain makes it hard to find the water

• people don't need wells in the wet season

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How does Salva involve the local people?

• He doesn't. He just uses his own crew.

• Local people help haul timber and gravel, help dig, help keep the drill wet, etc.

• Local people pay for the crew and the drill.

• Local people tell Salva where the underground water is so he knows where to drill.

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How is water needed to drill for water?

• water is needed to keep the drill lubricated

• water is needed to keep the crew cool

• water is needed to fill the ponds

• rain is needed to fill the ground so there's something to drill for

Wells are deeper in Sudan than in the US.

• True

• False

How does Salva know they've hit water?

• water spurts out

• the drill tells them

• the sand changes

• the villagers know where the water is

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