Liquid gold

摘要

Kuleytu Girmay is 38, with five children. Thanks to a new water point in the village, which she's been appointed to watch over as a local guard, she's managed to pay off her old loans and send her children to school. Her 'salary' for this new role is any run off water from the taps and troughs, which she collects in a reservoir to irrigate her Swiss chard, papayas and guavas. Because the productivity of her thirsty crops has increased threefold, she now has enough vegetables to sell at the market. "Before I started this garden I was one of the poorest. Now I can return my bank loan, so I am free."rnGirmay is just one of the individuals whose life has been turned around by a new WaterAid project in northern Ethiopia, where Ecover has forged a three-year partnership with the international NGO to bring clean water and sanitation to some 14,750 people.