Hurrican Maria has left about 35% of Puerto Rico without access to drinkable, clean water. People need water for health, to make food, wash dishes, and wash ourselves. People are drinking from potential hazardous waste sites; these people have no other options. While these people are taking any water given to them, they are provided with no knowledge of what’s actually in the water. According to press reports coming out of the ravaged island, some people are waiting in lines for hours just to be able to fill up a couple small bottles.

What is most astonishing to me is the fact that Puerto Rico is still part of U.S. and they are yet to be helped and even up to a month later they haven’t had the help they deserve and need. Water is an everyday necessity and is used for many things. We could be dealing with not only these people getting sick now but also getting sick of more serious things in the long run. No one deserves to drink dirty water and that shouldn’t be the only water available to them. People everyday usually dump out clean water just because someone drank out it the bottle and are just really wasteful when some people are dying and don’t have the same resource given to them.